Wes Rowlands

There was a client who just told me about a Japanese word or phrase that

And I totally forget what it was, but basically, it's a concept of breaking the cycle.

Yeah.

And when, to use your phrasing, when you have an anchor that is at a level 10 importance to you, then it gets pretty rational from there.

So when I feel a negative emotion about charting the business forward...

I simply look at it and say, okay, well, what did you think changing your family tree would be like?

So when you zoom out, you're like, yeah, of course.

I mean, dude, our ancestors would probably have to travel across 3,000 miles of mixed terrain to help put their families in a better position.

So then when I think that's like, well, what I'm doing is not that hard.

Is it uncomfortable?

Sure, but...

It beats trying to, you know, traverse the whole United States to get to California, you know, six generations ago.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think a couple of frameworks to sort of get out of the way.

Number one, what I like to think I teach is financial leadership.

So you have to decide on, do you want to be a financial leader for you or your family?

If the answer is no, then you're probably just gambling.

You know, you're probably, you're going to be blown according to whatever winds of the time or whatever your friend tells you to invest in or whatever.

But as you and I both know, well, if you step into the leadership role where you have to make decisions for other human beings, well, now that raises the game to an exponential level.