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You have spent your whole life proving why me. This is about the moment you stop proving and start believing why not me. There are two halves of confidence and most people treat them as rivals. One half is the part that earns its seat. It shows up early, does the work, keeps receipts, and can tell you exactly why it belongs in the room. That is why me. The other half is the part that simply believes it belongs before the evidence is in. That is why not me. People tend to pick

Wisdom is a great gift, and it almost always comes at a great price. Nothing is free, which is something I have talked about before. But the price of wisdom is a particular kind of expensive, because what it usually costs is a piece of yourself. Start with a story most people know. Solomon is offered anything he wants. Money, power, health, strength, whatever he can name. He asks for wisdom, and the response is so well received that he gets the wisdom and everything else on t

Everything we do in life has an opportunity cost. I got reminded of that recently by a mentor who was not especially interested in letting me finish complaining. I was venting to her about business, about deals that would not close, about a few things that felt heavier than they should have. She listened to all of it, and then she asked me a question that had nothing to do with any of it. She said, okay, I get all that. So how do you go to the gym every day? I sat there for a