50 Bits of Wisdom to Live By
There are no limits to what you’re capable of.
Happiness is your expectations minus the results—remove your expectations and it’s all upside.
People love to hear their name—take time to learn it and say it right.
Family and friends are two of the most important things in the world.
Modeling the desired behavior is the best way to teach your kids. If you don’t want them to hit and yell when they’re mad, then don’t hit and yell when you’re mad.
You may be the hero of your movie, but everyone else is the hero of theirs.
You’ll always see what you’re looking for—you might as well look for something great.
Money is meaningless past a certain point. If your needs are covered, why not use your money to buy things, experiences, and time with the people you love?
People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
Eating right, sleeping well, and exercising are some of the best tools we have to live a full, healthy life.
If you had lived the same life and had the same experiences as someone else up until that point, you would be in the same spot they’re in, making the same decisions.
Everybody is doing the best that they can.
Most people just want to be like most people.
Control over your time is the highest form of wealth that money can provide.
The ability to do what you want, when you want, with the people you want, for as long as you want, is the highest dividend that money can pay. (s/o to Morgan Housel)
Life is 50/50 no matter what: you will have good and bad days.
Being a parent is one of the single most challenging and most rewarding things you can do.
Sunshine is good for the soul.
Jesus didn’t discriminate, judge, or exclude anyone—he celebrated and uplifted.
Organizations are made up of people, and people are imperfect.
Narratives are more powerful than facts or data.
Getting the goalpost to stop moving is the hardest and most important thing you can do to improve your financial situation.
Fear is in the waiting, not in the doing.
Your thoughts create your feelings create your actions create your results. Try different thoughts, get different results.
You only get 18 summers till your kids are grown.
You can get better at anything you want—it just takes repetition.
You get to choose your God, so you might as well pick a Mr. Rogers or Bob Ross type.
Nobody sees or cares about the stain on your clothes or the wrinkle lines on your forehead. They’re too busy noticing their imperfections.
Most people are good most of the time.
A combination of time and compounding is the secret sauce to building long-term wealth.
Books are ideas, and ideas can create change in your life. Never stop reading.
People respond to incentives—it’s essential to understand the incentives of those around you.
Technology is advancing faster than our brains can comprehend.
Arguing with someone further cements them in their beliefs—show up with compassion and curiosity instead.
You are innately lovable—it’s your default state.
People want to know that you hear them before they will listen to you.
There’s no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.
Getting rich slowly is almost a guarantee, while getting rich quickly can be a path to destruction.
No matter what, we’re wired to want more.
This life is all that there is. Nobody can guarantee otherwise.
Tell others that you love them.
Keep an open mind—you never know what you have left to learn.
Every generation struggles to understand the next.
As we age we become more rigid and inflexible—it takes serious effort to combat this.
Everyone has the right to feel the full range of human emotions—don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Our job as parents is not to shape these little humans into our perfect image, it’s to accept and nurture them as they are.
True love has no conditions.
Strong social connections are a critical ingredient to a long, happy, and healthy life.
Your brain is your most valuable asset.
You are enough.