If you have decided that Making a Million Dollars is your number one priority you need to delete the bookmark to this blog, throw out your phone/computer, get a coffee and hang out with your family and friends. Do not allow your millions of dollars to consume you. Take care of your family, take care of yourself, manage your day job. When life gets in the way, let it get in the way. Let life get in the way because it’s your life and then; Bounce Back…
Bounce Back
I’m not a philosopher, I’m a leader. If this sounds like philosophy please remind yourself that I’m not a philosopher, I’m a leader. I have lead high performance teams through hundreds of millions of dollars of construction and I have experienced energy destroying, motivation killing delays and set backs that make you feel like you are as insignificant as a grain of sand sinking into the depths of the ocean. Every time the team experienced such a disaster, we bounced back. Bounced back from every experience and became a better team and stronger individuals. We would go home one night when the disaster ended and the next morning everyone would Bounce Back…
Ten Thousand Lost
To keep a long complicated story short, I own a house near Ottawa and I have rented it to a family for the last 5 years. When I got the house back on August 1, 2017 it was a disaster. I spent 3 weeks cleaning the grime from the bathrooms and floors and have been repairing the walls, floors, lights and every other part of the house for the last 1.5 weeks. I don’t think they ever cleaned. Finally it is ready for painting. One week of painting and one week of landscaping then I can sell it.
All of this will cost me about $10,000 and robbed me of one month of time and will rob another 2 weeks of my time.
The $10,000 will be recovered when I sell the house so it’s not a financial loss, it is time lost and lost time is opportunity lost.
My Million Dollar plan came to a screeching halt. The house was priority and I put All My Millions aside while cleaning and fixing the house. Once the house is done, I will have to Bounce Back…
Recipe for the Elixir of Bounce Back
Ingredients:
1 mug black coffee
1 ounce Irish cream whisky
1 glass of water
1 set of headphones
1 favourite music album
1 bowl of Cheerios – keep the box nearby
Directions:
Combine whisky and coffee, stir gently. Turn favourite album to medium volume and place headphones over your ears (or in your ears of they are the ear bud type). Eat the Cheerios while staring at the steaming mug of coffee and whisky. Once you are done eating the Cheerios, read the word Cheerios and absorb the energy coming from the bright yellow box. Clear your mind of everything negative (it is important to keep your eyes open and keep reading the word Cheerios). You can think of things -this isn’t meditation- you have to get rid of all your negative thoughts. Turn the music down and keep reading. Slowly turn the music volume all the way down while continuing to read. Once your mind is clear (this may take 30 minutes or more, the time is not relevant) sip the coffee with whisky and continue to read the word Cheerios. Just take a few sips. Open your Million Dollar Challenge Grid and Bounce Back…