PSA – Our final ONE Thing Summit & Goal Setting Retreat is one week away. Join Wendy and me online November 13–14 from 1–4 p.m. CT and get our complete 40+ page goal-setting guide. True to today’s theme, we’ve built a 1-hour masterclass on wealth-building into the Summit! Reserve your spot here. November 6, 2026 | Read Online “To teach is to learn twice.” – Joseph Joubert Teach What You Want to Keep In 2018, Wendy and I started an investment club. Wendy refused to call it that. Too boring....
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October 30, 2026 | Read Online “Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback.” – Dutch Proverb The Recipe for Trust My friend Ron Friedman’s first book, The Best Place to Work, didn’t cover trust. “I took trust for granted for a really long time,” he confessed. Writing about trust felt like saying honesty or integrity was important. Duh. Too obvious. Then he spent five years researching his new book, Superteams. He came away convinced he’d been wrong. Trust isn’t a given. It’s a skill. And...
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PSA – If you’d like to do your goal-setting retreat with us, Wendy and I are hosting our final The ONE Thing Summit & Goal Setting Retreat virtually on November 13–14. It’s two half days, so you can book a hotel nearby, enjoy your mornings, and join us for the sessions. Every attendee gets our 40+ page workbook walking you through the process. It’s arguably worth the ticket price alone. Learn more here. October 23, 2026 | Read Online “Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.” –...
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October 16, 2026 | Read Online “Instead of choosing between A or B, they figure out a way to have both A and B.” – Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last The 50-Hour Tipping Point Anna was a leader at a large global company. She loved her job. She loved her team and her clients. In her first coaching session, she confided to Cyril Peupion that she was going to quit. Not right away. In six months, after her bonus hit. “The price I’m paying is too high,” she shared. She rarely saw her two...
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October 9, 2026 | Read Online “One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.” – Yuval Noah Harari Pull the Right Lever In the past two weeks, I’ve had the same conversation three times. A business owner tells me the year has been good. They’re profitable. Then they drop the bomb. They lost five figures last month. Three owners. Same story. They’re not alone. A lot of leaders are feeling the uncertainty right now. Sales slow down....
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PSA: Our final ONE Thing Goal Setting Retreat & Summit is November 13–14. It’s virtual, so anyone can join us for one last run at planning a great year. Save your spot here. October 2, 2026 | Read Online “A very wise person once told me, ‘When it comes to overcoming obstacles, there are three kinds of people. The first kind sees most obstacles as insurmountable and walks away. The second kind sees an obstacle and says, I can overcome it, and starts to dig under, climb over, or blast through...
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PSA: If you missed my announcement about changes to The ONE Thing, click here. September 25, 2026 | Read Online “The score takes care of itself.” – Bill Walsh 25 First DownsQ4 starts next week. And, huzzah, it’s also football season. Which means I get to tell you about February 5, 2017. Last week I had Coach Jordan Freed on the podcast, and he hit me with a pop quiz.It's the third quarter of the Super Bowl. The Falcons are up 28-3 on the Patriots. Atlanta fans are already celebrating....
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September 18, 2026 | Read Online “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” — Elinor Smith Picking the Slow Line Every Time Many years ago, I heard something that really stuck with me. I was at a real estate training event, and a panel of top producers was getting peppered with lead generation questions. How often do you post? What do you say? Should I host a pie day or pumpkin...
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September 11, 2026 | Read Online “Once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm’s all about.” — Haruki Murakami Who Walks Out Wendy and I had moved from New York to Austin the year before. Most of our friends were still there. I was at work when the first report...
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