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Seasons Greetings! Happy New Year! I hope your 2025 is off to a fantastic start, whether you’re still recovering from last night’s confetti explosion or already drafting your resolutions. Let’s raise a glass (coffee or otherwise) to new beginnings, fresh ideas, and maybe some less questionable karaoke decisions this year. If you’ve been wondering where this newsletter wandered off to, you’re not alone. It’s been hibernating—but unlike the snacks I ate during the break, it’s not gone for good....

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Happy Sunday Friend, 🗓️ The last couple of weeks were crazy with travel getting reestablished at work and home and starting on two new ideas that I’ll share with the group as they get closer to kicking off to the public. Unfortunately, my video plans for the last couple of weeks were dashed, but I will be returning this week. So what do I write about now? Well, one of the two ideas that I am working on is starting a small community outreach for disadvantaged kids in Washington, DC. 🔬My lovely...

Hey Friend! Just got back from a fantastic week floating along the Northeastern coast of the USA and Canada, I had a great time thinking about all the things I want to do with the YouTube channel, the newsletter, and a few other ideas I have coming down the pipe. I will be releasing the video tomorrow, the video is about Tiago Forte’s PARA method. Here are the important notes that I took away and will share in the video. 🌟 Uncluttering Life with PARA! 🌟 Feeling swamped amidst a sea of digital...

Happy Sunday, Friend! This week's video is about Eli Goldratt's Critical Chain an interesting book that details the importance of work processes from start to finish. The Power of a Single Buffer Traditional project management often finds us padding each task with extra time “just in case.” However, this can lead to procrastination as we mistakenly think we have more time. Goldratt’s approach? Have one cumulative buffer at the project’s end. This strategy deals with unexpected delays more...

Happy Sunday Friend, In today’s Sunday edition and video, we dive into the wisdom of Retired Navy Captain Brett Crozier, who once helmed the USS Theodore Roosevelt, one of the US Navy’s most formidable warships. With a vast responsibility for over 5,000 personnel and more than 60 aircraft, Captain Crozier shared invaluable leadership tips in his book, Surf When You Can. This is one of the best books I’ve read in the last few months. I don’t know if it was because I could relate to so many of...

Happy Sunday Friend, During this week’s video I featured the third Austin Kleon book Steal Like an Artist, discussing how to embrace your creative nature, learn from others, and find what makes you unique. The book was a great read, and I would recommend it to anyone who is already performing creative/ knowledge work, as well as anyone who has creative passions that are unfulfilled. Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon This week’s video came out later than typical for a few reasons,...

Every problem is a leadership problem - Learn to Lead and Win Happy Sunday Friend, In this week’s edition of our newsletter, we delve deep into the essence of leadership, inspired by the groundbreaking book Extreme Ownership authored by the dynamic duo, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. This transformative work has proven influential across a broad range of professions, and we hope it will resonate with you, no matter the field you are in. Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin...

🔓Unleashing Your Unfair Advantages in Life & Business Hello Friend, Thank you for being a consistent reader and viewer. This project has meant more to me than I could ever imagine. I will say there are many challenges with balancing everything, but my goal is to continue doing this newsletter and weekly (or more often) videos for the years to come. In every episode, I learn a little more about myself and share it with you. This week’s video was centered around The Unfair Advantage, and if you...

The 10X Rule Happy Sunday everyone! 🧳This week was the first time I needed to record my weekly video on the road, which brings a new set of challenges when your travel baseline is only carry-ons. The key to overcoming this challenge was planning, a commitment to the promise of delivering a product. Both topics lead to this week’s feature topic - The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone. Writing about productivity and business tends to be a double-edged sword, today is no exception. A few weeks ago, I...

Happy Sunday everyone! Welcome back to another edition of the newsletter. This week’s video, Systems Create Successful Businesses, adapted information from Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited, discussed the foundational blocks of starting a business that could scale. As you know, we are champions of entrepreneurial spirit, so whenever I find something that can make that journey a little easier, I must share. A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from a reader asking why I do all this....