You’re standing over the bar preparing to pull your heaviest set. You scroll through my playlist for that one song to really get ya going. Dead-lifts are hard enough as it is, more so without getting psyched up first. The intro. to “Bat Country” by Avenged Sevenfold works every time…

It’s a whole lot simpler than you think. Not to toot my horn too loudly, but this is a big deal. I am a freelancing idea guy connecting the dots for people I meet at home in Pittsburgh and while traveling abroad. I love thinking up new ideas and concepts but rarely put them to use — this…

Selling a house is expensive! It’s even more expensive if you have a mortgage that is nearly what the house is worth. I’m going to explain to you what that scenario looks like and how to avoid it altogether. …

This nightmare scenario is timeless. A perfect storm of unfortunate events compounds and you can’t make your payment. It might happen to them but it could never happen to me. Well, now you’re them. And I’m me(?). I think. The good news is, there are a ton of ways to…

There are 86,400 seconds in a day — that works out to 1,440 minutes. We’ve all heard the cliche advice telling us to not let a few hundred of the 86–4 or a couple of the 14–40 spoil the rest. We all know that a few bad minutes of your…

P.S…I am. I think about this every day. I know very well that my life could end in an instant. Any instant. “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” — Marcus Aurelius. Meditations 2.11 Most people quote the bible, I prefer…

Escape the cycle of burning it all down to start it all again. “Okay. I don’t know what you’ve heard about me but I’m going to be running things from now on and there are going to be some major changes around here. Starting with, everything…” We’ve all been there…

We already have to grind harder. Now we grind smarter. I believe what separates those who genuinely enjoy earning their degree AND excel at it and those who don’t is mastery of their time. If I had to choose just one “hack” it would be just that: time management. If…

Deadly Pandemic, Golden Opportunity Imagine you have a security company. You serve a large gated community and get paid handsomely for it. The residents, having paid monthly dues for a decade, are getting pissed at having to pay for something they never use. They harass security guards and go out…