Tactics

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

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.

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.

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”.

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.  

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.