Scott Becker

Fourth, five health insurance companies' year-to-date stock market results.

I'll just go through five of them very quickly.

Centene is down 53% year-to-date.

UnitedHealthcare is down 44% year-to-date.

Elevance is down 21% year-to-date.

On the flip side, Cigna is up 7% year-to-date, and CVS is up 33% year-to-date.

So there is some positive ink there as well.

Finally, fifth today, Intel gets crushed Friday.

Stock fell nearly 9%.

This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast.

Today's discussion is four choices you have to make every day, every quarter, every year.

So here's the four choices that you got to make.

And this can be true of business opportunities, business lines, hobbies, friendships, whatever it might be.

This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast.

Today's discussion is don't give oxygen to things that don't return the oxygen.

So here's the deal.

If you have people in your life that don't respond to you well, if you got people you're trying to chase as friends and they're not great friends to you, don't give them the time, don't give them the energy, don't let it seep your oxygen.

If you're doing certain activities and you come away from every one of those activities distressed and feeling like you're having a horrible time, don't give that activity oxygen.

Don't lean into that activity.

Find something else to do with your time and your life.