The Twenty Percenter
Weekly advice for top business professionals.
The Path of Money: A Simple Framework for Building Wealth (4 Min Read) | Vol. 141 This mirrors the first chapter of a three-part wealth-building series on The ONE Thing podcast. You can follow along on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. March 07, 2025 “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, …
Top Takeaways from KW Family Reunion 2025 (3 Min Read) | Vol. 140 February 28, 2025 “We don’t become what we want. We become what we believe we are worthy of.” – Jamie Kern Lima Top Takeaways from KW Family Reunion 2025 | Vol. 140 Last week KW hosted our annual convention, which we call …
The Perfectionism Trap: Just in Time vs. Just in Case (3 Min Read) | Vol. 139 February 21, 2025 “I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it’s just terrified.” – Elizabeth Gilbert The Perfectionism Trap: Just in Time vs. Just in Case I …
ICYMI: Ideas into Action – TIPSS Revisited (3 Min Read) | Vol. 138 February 14, 2025 “Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. Action is the beginning of change.” – James Clear ICYMI: Ideas into Action – TIPSS Revisited Next week is our annual convention, so I’m revisiting one of our most popular posts on how …
The Apology (3 Min Read) | Vol. 137 February 7, 2025 “Clarity is kindness.” – Brené Brown The Apology I remember watching one of my leaders triage their email inbox during an important training class. I’d asked them to attend the two-day class to improve their hiring, a core element to their success. I got …
The Infinite Resource (3 Min Read) | Vol. 136 January 31, 2025 “Love is not a pie.” – Amy Bloom The Infinite Resource I once attended a talk by author Bob Beaudine where he created an unforgettable moment. Early in his presentation, he asked everyone in the audience to pull out their phones. But instead …
The Hidden Cost of Busyness (2 Min Read) | Vol. 135 January 24, 2025 “If busyness is your drug, rest will feel like stress.” — Dr. John Delony The Hidden Cost of Busyness University of Chicago and Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers discovered the answer to why we just can’t sit still.* They asked participants …
Three Ways to Be a Time Millionaire (4 Min Read) | Vol. 134 January 17, 2025 “Time is so valuable it’s like having money in the bank.” – Nilanjana Roy Three Ways to Be a Time Millionaire Writer Nilanjana Roy coined the phrase “time millionaire” in her 2016 Financial Times column, “How I Became a …
Monks, Booze, and a Secretive Recipe for a Values-Based Life (2 Min Read) | Vol. 133 January 10, 2025 “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ― Roy Disney Monks, Booze, and a Secretive Recipe for a Values-Based Life Carthusian monks have been distilling chartreuse, an herbal liquor, in …
Flywheels and Siphons (2 Min Read) | Vol. 132 January 03, 2025 “Each turn [of the flywheel] builds upon previous work as you make a series of good decisions, supremely well executed, that compound one upon another. This is how you build greatness.” ― Jim Collins Flywheels and Siphons This past fall, I had to …
