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You won’t believe what happened when I tried this carwash – it completely changed my perspective! I had 20 minutes before my next appointment so I decided to get my car washed. A quick look on Google Maps and I saw there was a ModWash right around the corner so I headed over to try […]

During a recent retreat facilitated by Jessica Ramirez, she had us position our bodies in different yoga positions and posed questions to help us identify emotions that might be contained in certain areas of our bodies. As I stretched and focused on my left hip, the “I am not enough” came forward. I’m familiar with […]

Home sales spike, yet medium prices fall, banks are under stress, commercial defaults are on the rise, and the fed raises rates again. What do you make of all of this? Remember in January I made 6 Predictions for 2023 because a lot of what we are seeing is cyclical, thus predictable as Ray Dalio […]

On a recent trip, I had a little time to myself and so I loaded Netflix and watched the sobering and award-winning movie, All Quiet on the Western Front. I was completely enthralled by the story and couldn’t help but think about the many young men and women back in the trenches again, this time, […]

Housing’s spring selling season is approaching! Alchemy of Money partners with Certified Financial Planner Stephen Rifici at Ameriprise. I’ve known Stephen for a long time, and we were recently catching up about the spring market, and what real estate entrepreneurs should be expecting. CFA Chief Economist Russell T. Price put together a little outlook and […]

You have to be it. Before you can have it. Think about it. You have to be a top producer now before you receive recognition for it later. You have to be a highly profitable business owner now, creating what will eventually be realized as a wildly profitable business later. You have to be a […]

Gary Keller recently posted, “The biggest challenge we all face is learning outside our personal experience. If we don’t figure this out, we are likely to make really tough mistakes.” That quote sat with me all week and made me think: Why is it so hard to learn outside our comfort zone, what exactly is […]

Recently I went on a mindfulness retreat in Costa Rica with Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust, and Jake Tarr. It was a moving experience with 3 key themes that persisted throughout the retreat. First, the set-up. My intention for the 3 days of social silence was best captured by the poem Tara Brach read at the […]

The story goes, a traveler was on his way from the city to a mountaintop village and stopped at a waystation for some refreshment.  “Where are you headed?” asked the waystation attendant.  “To the mountaintop village because the market is saturated in the city and I need to make a living,” the traveler replied. “By […]