Zero debt. 7-8 hours of sleep per night. Low body fat percentage. Nutrition is perfect. Mental health on track. Zero alcohol and extremely hydrated. This was my peak. I was 8 years old.

Guide to appropriate tipping percentages- Drive through that asks you to tip with a screen prompt- 0% Sit down restaurant- 20% + additional 5-10% for exceptional service or large party Haircuts or any similar service- 20-25% Kid selling lemonade on side of road- 2000% +additional 1000-2000% if business appears slow

$10,000 invested at 21 years old will be $443K at age 65. $10,000 invested at 41 years old will be $79K at age 65. Cannot emphasize how important it is to invest in your 20s. Looking back I wish we would have done more.

It’s wild how many people think that it’s pointless to invest $100/month. But: 1. It's better than $0 2. You let your money grow instead of wasting it (and get addicted to the returns) 3. You form a habit of consistently investing Just start. It will pay off

Investing $1,000 per month doesn’t sound like it’ll move the needle. That’s 10 years to contribute $100,000. With a 12% annual return that’s $230,000. After 20 years you’re sitting on $1,000,000. Compound interest does wonders when you weaponize consistency.

I will never stop shouting this from the rooftops: the most underrated skill you’ll ever develop is the ability to genuinely enjoy your own life. Not someday, when you’ve healed enough, earned enough, or finally figured everything out. NOW. Because your life isn’t waiting for you somewhere in the future—it’s being built in the way you experience this ordinary Sunday, this cup of coffee, this conversation, this sunset, this breath.

🚨#BREAKING: A 13-year-old girl is being praised as a hero after she defended her mom from an abusive man, slicing him in the face with a “samurai” sword in Tennessee. The teenager was in her bedroom when she heard her mother screaming for help. When she rushed out, she says her mother’s ex-boyfriend was choking her. The young girl say she grabbed a decorative sword off the wall in an attempt to stop the attack. Deputies report the ex-boyfriend lunged toward the teen and she swung the sword slicing his face so severely, he had to be airlifted to a hospital for treatment of his injuries. The girl’s mother says she has always taught her daughter to protect herself and the people she loves. WHAT A BADASS!!!!!!!!!!

Be ruthless about who you allow into your personal life. You cannot reform sloppy men, and you will never out-discipline bad company. The people you surround yourself with will either sharpen you or sabotage you. Their actions eventually reflect on you. Take this seriously. If you don’t, life will eventually teach you the lesson the hard way. Every undisciplined man will face his refiner’s fire. Make sure you don’t get burned with him. Warriors, protect your ecosystem at all costs.

Just had my 14yo daughter go to the amusement park all day with 3 friends and one of the dads (whom I hadn’t met before) chaperoning the whole time I have however met the parents of two of the other kids, been to their houses and at bday parties with the parents and hosted the kids for day trips myself so I know they’re all good kids But I still hadn’t ever met the dad who was chaperoning so of course that had to go well at pickup or it wasn’t gonna happen This guy lays out all the ground rules for me that he has with the kids (they won’t be out of his sight, except for when they go to the. Barroom and they’ll take a buddy as well and he’ll be outside waiting) and then looks me dead in the eyes and says “I love my kids, and I know your daughter isn’t my kid, but I will still kill for her” He goes on to tell me he’s a combat vet etc, has eyes in the back of his head As a father, I couldn’t have been put at more ease That’s how you reassure a parent that their child will be cared for 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

Aaron Tucker had been out of prison for seven days. He had less than $2 in his pocket and one shot at turning his life around, a job interview that morning. Then he saw a car flip over and catch fire from his bus window. He asked the bus driver if he was going to help. "No, but if you get out I'm going to leave," the driver replied. Tucker got out anyway. He sprinted toward the upside-down, smoke-filled car and found the 61-year-old driver covered in blood. He unbuckled the man's seatbelt and dragged him clear as the car started to catch fire. He pulled off his own dress shirt and used it to stop the man's head wound from bleeding, telling him: "You're going to be all right. Your family wants to see you. Keep your eyes open." The bus left. Tucker missed his interview. When the story got out, strangers set up a GoFundMe that raised over $50,000 in three days. He also received multiple job offers in construction. "I feel like a job can come and go, but a life is a one-time thing," Tucker said. "The job just wasn't in my mind at that time."

Two friendly reminders: Never leverage your crypto, no matter how attractive it sounds. The liquidation wave always comes, and for many, it’s coming sooner than they think. Never take trading advice from people promoting leverage. There is a reason exchanges are willing to give it to you. The odds are not in your favor. You’re not the exception. In fact, they make money because people believe they are. Build patiently. Stay debt-free. Buy quality assets when they’re red. Take profits on the way up. Then move those profits into protection and cash flow. Wealth is built through discipline, not gambling. Casinos give away free drinks for a reason. GYST

XRP to $10,000.... really? Lol The $10k theory isn’t about burns. Whoever is saying it can reach that through burns doesn’t understand how xrp works. This will help clarify how it works: Let’s say $100 billion needs to be moved by banks through the use of xrp. There are 100 billion tokens. That means at $1 they would need to use all 100 billion tokens in existence. Let’s say we factor in available tokens of the circulating supply (not held by retail, banks, institutions, etfs, etps, and ripple etc) now we get a much smaller number. Let’s say 50 billion circ supply goes down to 30 billion. Now that $1 xrp is now $3. Now let’s say banks are moving on the ledger what swift moves in a day which is $5 trillion. This is the milestone many in the community look towards. That $3 token is now $133 JP Morgan facilitates $10 trillion worth of payments per day. Their MC is not $10 trillion. If a token were used to facilitate these payments, and there were 50 billion of these tokens available how much would that token need to be worth to move that amount of money? $200. What about 40B tokens, 30B, 25B, you get the idea. Banks won’t sell any tokens being used for payments, just to buy them back again for payments. So those tokens are just being circulated within the ecosystem, forever shrinking due to burning. The top 5 banks in the US move approx $40T a day. That’s just the US. $50T @ 25B available tokens is $2k a token Now take tokenization of rwa’s, where real estate is $300 trillion, and the derivatives market is over $1 quadrillion. This is where it gets serious. This is what BlackRock wants, and we all know BR. They want to tokenize and own everything. They weren’t interested in crypto until they understood tokenization. Now they’re all in BlackRock is partnered with Securitize. Securitize recieved funding from Ripple and coinbase for $13m. Carlos Domingo (ceo and co-founder of securitize) spoke at ripples yearly conference. Paul Atkins (next in-line for SEC chair) is on the advisory board of securitize. BlackRock will get what they want, so will securitize, and I believe Ripple will as well At the end of the day, no one knows what will happen. I highly doubt ripple will get ALL of the money in the world moving through them. But with the numbers we’re talking about, a 10% market share will easily put xrp well into the hundreds and possibly into the thousands. It comes down to simple math and the movement of money. So yes I agree, the burns alone won’t make xrp $10k

XRP news continues to be bullish this month $25.8M flowed into spot XRP ETFs on Monday. Biggest day since January A $200M prime brokerage facility in place that covers institutional custody and the leverage rail A Treasury settlement pilot with JPMorgan and Mastercard completed to demo a TradFi pipe moving money across XRP infrastructure A quantum-resistance roadmap published to show the future-proofing steps to prepare for the time when post-quantum cryptography can start breaking security across networks

Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.” “Well, AI is coming for the coders.” “It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.” “In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.” “The BlueForge Alliance, who oversees our maritime industrial base—that’s 15,000 individual companies who are collectively charged with building and delivering nuclear-powered subs to the Navy … calls and says, we’re having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can you help?” “I said, I don’t know, man … how many do you need? He says, 140,000.” “These are our submarines. Things go hypersonic, a little sideways with China, Taiwan, our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear. They’re vulnerable.” “Our submarines matter, and these guys have a pinch point because they can’t find welders and electricians to get them built.” “The automotive industry needs 80,000 collision repair and technicians.” “Energy, I don’t even know what the number is, I hear 300,000, I hear 500,000.” “There is a clear and present freakout going on right now. I’ve heard from six governors in the last six months. I’ve heard from the heads of major companies.”

Don't buy luxury cars. Do this instead: Step 1: Buy a Toyota Step 2: Get it paid off Step 3: Maintain it Step 4: Drive it forever Bonus step: Invest the saved money in appreciating assets.

people ask me why I hold XRP through everything. I give them the short version: Ripple was the only crypto invited to the Federal Reserve's payments task force. Ripple was the only crypto featured by the World Bank's Better Than Cash Alliance. Ripple was the first ISO 20022 member focused on distributed ledger technology. XRP is the crypto the UN officially uses for their carbon credit solution. Ripple has hired former US Treasury officials. Former Federal Reserve attorneys. Former Swift board members. Former SEC chairs. Former BlackRock digital asset executives. Former Obama and Clinton advisors. Ripple sits on the IMF's fintech advisory board. The World Economic Forum. The Digital Dollar Project. The Digital Pound Foundation. The Digital Euro Association. this isn't a crypto company. this is the company that was chosen to build the new financial system before most people knew a new financial system was being built. I hold XRP because the people building the future already made their choice. I just know what i hold.

Bro is the richest person in the world.

The person who intervened with their foot to prevent the elderly woman from hitting her head on the ground after she lost her balance and fell in South Korea was declared a hero worldwide 🦸‍♂️

Father teaches boys to deal with restaurant conflict. Server doesn’t refill drinks, forgets silverware, says the group is too much, and slams plates on the table. Well Father teaches his sons how to politely ask for the manager and speak to her calmly. The boys tell the manager about their ordeal and then the manager speaks to the employee. The server then comes back to the table and apologizes. He proceeds to tell them how he hit something with his car and was having a bad day. The Father then teaches his sons to stop and pray for their server, even thanking God for him. Good parenting?

I love when rich people do rich things right. 👀