From Financial Security to Financial Independence
Once you hit financial independence – retirement. You’ll have enough money to retire and not work another day of your life.
Life
The Only Reason to Get Out of Bed
“In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose—a productive purpose.” ~ Ayn Rand, Playboy Interview Every morning, I get out of bed. It may seem like a small, innocuous event. Yet that one small act is profound. I could just lie there, mind […]
The Best and Worst Jobs 2
In 1996, I dropped out of college and worked at the worst job in my life. During those miserable 6 months, I became an employee at an antique mall. Not that there’s anything wrong with antiques, but the job sucked. Particularly, one of the positions. In that position, I was assigned to sit […]
How to be Super Productive as a Parent 2
For many years, my obsessive drive to be super productive became my norm for living. I worked 40-50 hours a week at a job, then came home and worked another 20-40 hours on side projects. When all of the work was done, I pursued intensive play. Rarely was there a […]
Work-Life Boundaries, not Balance 2
You may have noticed over the past month that the number of posts I wrote for Reason for Success has been smaller than in the past. This was due in part to my struggles with identifying the appropriate work/life balance. Guess what I found out. Thinking in terms of balance was […]
Moving from Good to Great 2
Gretzky, the world’s best hockey player ever, knows what separates the good from the great. He worked with many good hockey players, but few earned the title of “Great” hockey players. What set them apart? What did they do differently? “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A […]
Review of The 4-Hour Workweek
In 2007, Tim Ferriss shocked the publishing world with his best-selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek. Who would think that a book selling a lifestyle change would be so popular? In it, Ferriss re-examines what it means to be a “success” and offers a unique and challenging answer. We explore that answer […]
Why your career should come before your family 8
If you were to take any time to watch me throughout my day, you would probably think that I am a typical family man. I average 40 hour work weeks. On the weekends, I spend a large amount of time with my family. We go to sport practices and play […]
How to stop wasting time and get the most out of life 4
Every action we choose requires time and effort – time and effort that could be spent doing another activity. So its to our best interest to spend each second on activities that create the most value for us – on actions that are value-dense. “Since a value is that which one […]
Why Ambition is a Virtue?
In a world where ambition is sometimes frowned upon, why should you explicitly focus on such a habit and more so, consider it a virtue? Consider this definition of ambition by Ayn Rand: “the systematic pursuit of achievement and of constant improvement in respect to one’s goal.” By this conception, […]