⏱️ Kids don't care what you say

I. You can’t do yesterday over again.

Whether it went well or was wasted, all you can do is learn from it and continue on. While you can’t change it, you can use it to improve the future.

And this is important.

Because you won’t get tomorrow over again either.

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II. Don’t apply rules to your children that you do not apply to yourself.

Now, there is some flexibility in this based on the age and stage of your children, but not as much as most people assume.

If you don’t want your kids speaking a certain way, you shouldn’t either. If an 8-year-old shouldn’t use certain language, why should an adult?

Perhaps a 10-year-old shouldn’t watch a war movie because they are too young to fully understand and process what’s going on, that’s fine. But make sure the reason you can watch a movie and they cannot truly is because they aren’t ready for it yet, not because it’s something you shouldn’t be watching either.

A great rule of thumb for making decisions is this: when my child is my age, what would I want them to do?

Be someone your children should follow, not just by doing what you say, but by doing what you do.

Because kids don’t care what you say, they are going to do what you do.

I. Seth Godin on adding some gift wrap:

“One way to turn a product or service into a story is to gift wrap it.

Yes, you did my taxes, but did you include a two-page summary and a useful folder to keep it in?

Whether you're providing a service to a casual customer or a product to a regular patron, what you're really selling is the story. The commodity part of your day leaves no room for magic.

Handing a friend a $50 bill is very different from buying a thoughtful gift and carefully wrapping it.

We can find a way to add a bit more.”

II. Adam Grant on criticism:

“Criticizing is easy and fast. Cre

The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom

This book is not all about finances (which I originally assumed because I only looked at the primary title).

The goal of this book is to help you build and live a well-rounded life. The five areas of "wealth" it looks at are time, social, mental, physical, and financial.

If you are willing to do the exercises suggested throughout the book, it will be a benefit to you. While it has helpful wisdom for anyone, I particularly think someone in the midst of a career change or wanting to make changes in their life (for whatever reason) would particularly like this book.

Overall, it's a decent book. A good amount of the concepts weren't new to me given how much I have read in this area, but that is not the book's fault.

In my opinion, the book does suffer from trying to be too helpful. The second part of the book really breaks down the 5 types of wealth in more detail and gives you a lot of things to think through and consider. I get the idea behind it, but when a book is giving you too much information it can be overwhelming to do anything it says.

I do think the book is better than my personal enjoyment rating, but because many of the concepts weren't all that new to me and it gives too many things to think about (in my opinion), it knocked it down a little bit.

6.5/10

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P.S. This date is not off to a good start…