The Twenty Percenter
Weekly advice for top business professionals.
How Much is Your Time Worth? June 28, 2024 “Don’t hire to grow your business. Hire to buy back your time.” – Dan Martell How Much is Your Time Worth? How much for an hour of your time? Financial services company EmPower recently surveyed over 2,000 Americans on how much they value their time. On …
How to Add 45 Days to Your Year June 21, 2024 “An hour before 9 is worth 2 after 5.” — Ali Abdaal Last week, I interviewed Travis, a successful real estate agent outside of Pensacola, FL. Travis was juggling his growing professional success with his desire to spend more time with his wife and …
The Networking NameDrop® Hack June 14, 2024 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke The Networking NameDrop® Hack I am often inadvertently clever or funny. Most often, I’m bungling a cliché. Dog got your tongue? Don’t have a sow. If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. Since writers are taught to avoid clichés, …
How to Go On a News Diet June 07, 2024 “What you focus on expands.” –T. Harv Eker How to Go On a News Diet “No news is good news” may be more true today than ever before. The adage can trace its roots back to King James who in 1616 wrote, “No newis is …
The Broken Down Car Theory “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred… Unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” — W. H. Murray The Broken Down Car Theory …
Time Billionaires “We have two lives and our second begins when we realize we only have one.” – Confucius Graham Duncan, co-founder of East Rock Capital, coined the idea of a “time billionaire” on The Tim Ferriss Show. Duncan was exploring the idea of how much a financial billionaire like Warren Buffett would pay for …
Advice to Your 18-Year-Old Self On Thursday, May 23rd at 1:00 pm CT our team at The ONE Thing is hosting a free webinar on core values as a gateway to great decision-making. We wanted to revisit this theme I wrote about at the end of 2023, for you and especially the young adults in …
Narrow the Choice “Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Narrow the Choice Happy Mother’s Day! Since this edition falls on the eve of our favorite matriarchal holiday, I thought I’d share a parenting lesson that’s also solid sales advice. I used to struggle to get our youngest child dressed and out the …
Thinking Cap or Capped Thinking? “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” — Khalil Gibran Thinking Cap or Capped Thinking? In 1997 a …
One Hundred Reps “It takes 100 repetitions to become familiar with any new concept, technique, or idea. It takes 1,000 repetitions to become competent. It takes 5,000 repetitions to become skilled. It takes 10,000 repetitions to become gifted. But the 10,001st repetition will suddenly start to open doors. Your gift will make room for you. …
