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I'm the Creeper in Your Neighborhood

About five years ago, I decided to walk every street in my hometown.

TacticsJesse WilsonJuly 16, 2019Comment

Cap the Downside

Rule #1: Don’t lose money.

Rule #2: Don’t forget about rule #1.

These are Warren Buffet’s famous rules about investing and this concept has been adopted by other supremely successful investors.

TacticsJesse WilsonJune 21, 2019Comment

Trust the Process: Reaching Escape Velocity

When you first start exercising, it all sucks. Deciding what type of exercise to do sucks. Deciding where to do it and how often to do it sucks. Deciding what type of clothes to wear sucks. The exercise itself really sucks and then feeling tired or sore the next day also sucks.

TacticsJesse WilsonMay 27, 2019 Comment

Two for the Price of One: Financial Mastery meets Keystone Habits

Ben Franklin often started his days by standing in front of the bedroom window he left open all night, naked as a jaybird. Look it up. He called it an “air bath”.

TacticsJesse WilsonApril 13, 2019Comment

Ascending the Pyramid of Financial Shit-Togetherness: Step #3

Like so many important things in life, getting your financial shit together is a series of steps, each one building upon the skills and knowledge gained in the previous.

TacticsJesse WilsonApril 5, 2019Comment

Keystone Habit #3

Imagine it’s 1965 and you have $1,000 in cash burning a hole in your pocket.

TacticsJesse WilsonMarch 22, 2019Comment

The Year of Monthly Experiments

I’m sure this only applies to me, but if I’m being completely honest, I haven’t universally kept my New Year’s Resolutions.

TacticsJesse WilsonFebruary 3, 2019Comment

Ascending the Pyramid of Financial Shit Togetherness: Step #2

If you haven’t read and acted upon Step 1, do that before reading this post. The first step is foundational for everything that follows and without a solid foundation, you will never gather your financial shit together to a sufficient degree.

TacticsJesse WilsonNovember 2, 2018Comment

Cultivating Elite Productivity

I want to let you in on a little secret: I’ve discovered the best productivity system in the history of the universe.

TacticsJesse WilsonSeptember 15, 2018Comment

Keystone Habit #2

Look, I get it. Most people need eight or more hours of sleep to function but for whatever reason, you've always been able to get by on five and a half.

TacticsJesse WilsonAugust 13, 2018Comment

Ascending the Pyramid of Financial Shit-Togetherness: Step #1

Whether or not you remember it, at one point in your life you suffered from a terrible case of fiscal diarrhea.

TacticsJesse WilsonJuly 28, 2018Comment

DadBod Kryptonite

No matter how good or bad you are at holding yourself accountable, you can improve by consciously building a system that strengthens your commitment to your goal.

TacticsJesse WilsonJune 23, 2018 Comment

Keystone Habit #1

In order to truly dominate your DadBod, you must become a cultivator of your habits. At any given time, you should have at least one meaningful positive habit that you are working to instill.

TacticsJesse WilsonJune 9, 2018 Comment

Try These 3 Habits for One Month and You Will be Thunderstruck

One of the weirdest things I did as a kid was stay up late and binge watch infomercials.

TacticsJesse WilsonMay 26, 2018 Comment

Track Yo' Shit: What Gets Measured, Gets Managed

What you choose to measure and how you choose to measure it is a critical factor in increasing your chances of success.

TacticsJesse WilsonMay 24, 2018Comment