The trick is starting the night before. — I am sitting here in my quiet office at my desk. It is 6 am, the birds are still sleeping, and the sun has not come up yet. I have been awake since 4 am. If you asked me last month to wake up at 4 am to get my…

You don’t need others to validate you. — Self-worth is defined as your internal feeling of being good enough, being whole, and feeling worthy of love. If you own your own self-worth, you believe your worth is abundant, infinite, and inherent inside of you. You believe you deserve love and acceptance from yourself and others no matter what. …

And it’s ok. — Not everyone is destined to live the life of an entrepreneur and that is ok. There is inherent risk venturing off into the unknown. You don’t know what perils lie ahead and if you have the knowledge and resourcefulness to adjust. Conversely, there could be a land of plenty, flourishing…

It’s the small things that can have the biggest impact. — As a summer internship before my senior year of college, I was offered a management intern opportunity at Walmart stores. I had the chance to work with the various departments throughout the Walmart stores from customer service, inventory receiving, to accounting. The best part of the internship was getting to…

It’s who you become along the way. — Have you ever set a really ambitious goal for yourself and worked really hard to accomplish it? For a few moments, you enjoyed the feeling of reaching your goal and then immediately set eyes forward to the next? You are surprised to find that you actually feel unfulfilled and a…

A practice you can do daily. — Many of us who are goal-oriented are always looking for the next challenge, constantly looking to progress forward. We set a goal, reach the goal, and then instantaneously think about what the next goal is without stopping to think about what we just accomplished. However, without stopping and reflecting on…

It can be a form of therapy. — Recently, I had a good friend reach out to me under distress. She is a smart, ambitious, and successful professional trader who fell into a personal funk. She worked for large financial institutions managing the daily pressure of being yelled at for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week…

Start here to unlock your potential. — Gratitude is simple. When practicing gratitude, you think about the simple and small things in life that you are thankful for. This doesn’t have to be something big like your 5 bedroom house or your last promotion at work. …

A journey to discovering what is really important. — My mentor once asked me, if I closed my eyes and imagined I had everything I wanted, living my ultimate dream life, what would it look like? Surprisingly, I could not answer the question right away. Initially, I thought I would have unlimited money and the financial freedom to not…