The Secret Behind the World’s Best Investments
Over the years, I’ve explained a lot of Wall Street’s “secrets”… I’ve explained how discounted bonds are sometimes vastly better investments than stocks. I’ve covered how selling naked puts is almost always safer and more profitable than buying stocks outright. These concepts (and others) are critical to active investors. They…
Proof Membership Sites Suck
Want to know how to build a fortune of $750 million? Well, if you’re Vince McMahon, you start with $1.5 billion and then make a bad decision! Presto – $750 million fortune. Here’s the deal from one my favorite websites, CelebrityNetWorth.com … Why the WWE Stock Has Crashed – and…
How to Be a Good Role Model for Your Kids: The Powerful Pygmalion Effect
I want to share with you a powerful secret that will help your kids reach their full potential. It doesn’t involve sending them to fancy schools… or signing them up for extracurricular activities. It doesn’t require helping them get a high-powered internship… or sending them overseas to learn a foreign…
Truth About Online Partnerships
Many people fail in business partnerships. It can be a dangerous rocky road. I struggled with my first few attempts at it. But today almost everything I do is with a partner – or two. From ETR to the Mastermind I run with Bedros. The right partner can make…
The Top Three Places to Retire in the U.S.
Many folks struggle with the issue of where to retire. It’s hard to know what the right thing to do is when the time comes – stay where you lived when you worked, or move somewhere else to “retire.” So if you are contemplating retirement for the first time, lots…
Google is Destroying Your Future
This is really BAD news if you still have a job. If you’re a teacher, a personal trainer, an IT worker, a factory employee, a nurse, or even a DOCTOR, than I hope that you’re at least over 50, have an amazing work pension program, and a nifty little retirement…
7 Benefits of the 9th Step to Riches
Ten years after graduation, the average doctor remembers half of the information they knew at graduation. Essentially that leaves them only half as qualified to do their job. Part of that is forgetting or not reviewing material, part of that is not knowing the material in the first place, and…
How to Set Realistic Goals
Aim high! Reach for the stars! Shoot for the moon! In other words, Think Big!That’s the message we get time and time again from motivational speakers. And I get it. In business, it certainly makes sense when you are in the very first stages of developing a new product or…
How to Really Matter in Life
A friend of mine has a tattoo that says, “You are what you do when it counts.” Last Friday you read the story of The Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, who stood strong in the path of a truck bomb. Their actions and ultimate sacrifice saved the…
The Story of Two Marines in the Path of a Truck Bomb
Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22nd of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 “The Walking Dead,” and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the…
My Greatest Lessons About Freedom Came From This Book
The belief that governments perform socially useful functions which deserve your support is a trap. The belief that you must obey a moral code created by someone else is a trap. And the belief that your rights will make you free is a trap. Whether or not you agree with…
The Secret to Instant Attraction
I’ve never been a very polarizing person. Actually, for most of my life, my goal was to be anything but polarizing. Growing up as a child and into early adulthood, there’s no way I could have taken the heat that being polarizing creates. I was allergic to conflict and would…