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  • Wealth Thinking Lessons: The Leadership of Money Flow

    I once heard money described as a machine powered by a crank. The crank is your effort — your mornings, your attention, your time. You turn it, and cash flow appears. If the crank stops, the flow stops.

    Leadership, however, has always been about building systems that outlive effort. Leadership has always been about how we handle flow.

    Not influence. Not followers.
    Flow.

    Money comes in. Money goes out. The rhythm repeats quietly in the background of every life. We think the story ends there: work harder, earn more, repeat.

    But leadership begins the moment we ask a different question:

    What happens after the money arrives?

    That question changes everything.

    Great leaders don’t just work harder; they create structures that continue working when they step away.

    The same is true with money.

    You turn the crank not to spin forever — but to build a machine that eventually turns itself.

    The first principle is clarity.

    An asset is not just something you own. It is something that comes back carrying more than you sent out.

    An expense is not evil. It’s simply complete — the story ends when the money leaves.

    Leadership is the discipline of directing flow toward what multiplies.

    It’s a mindset shift that sounds small but acts like leverage. The moment you begin sending dollars with purpose instead of emotion, something subtle changes. Chaos starts to organize itself.

    Then there is the second principle — the one few people talk about.

    Giving.

    Every strong leader understands this instinctively. Generosity is not a loss; it is alignment. It reminds you that money is a tool, not a master.

    Giving keeps the heart from hardening.

    It transforms accumulation into stewardship.

    And strangely, leaders who practice it often describe the same thing: clarity increases. Decisions become easier. Fear decreases.

    The third principle feels almost old-fashioned.

    Freeze the fruit.

    Imagine the harvest of your effort — years of work turned into income. Most people consume the harvest immediately. Some borrow against future harvests that don’t yet exist.

    But wise leaders preserve part of what they produce.

    Not for excitement. Not for growth. Simply for stability.

    You freeze the fruit so it will survive when conditions change.

    This isn’t about speculation. It’s about independence — building a foundation no external system can easily tamper with.

    Leadership is always thinking beyond the immediate season.

    And here is where the manifesto becomes uncomfortable.

    Many people believe financial discipline means living small — less joy, less freedom, fewer experiences.

    Yet the opposite often happens.

    When expenses shrink, and assets grow, life expands. The pressure decreases. Choices multiply.

    I have seen people drowning in debt, surrounded by things that never truly satisfied them. And I have seen people living with intention whose lives feel spacious, even without extravagance.

    Leadership isn’t about having more.

    It’s about needing less from what you have.

    Eventually, something remarkable happens.

    The crank slows.

    Not because you became lazy — but because the machine has begun to move on its own.

    This is the real objective.

    Not endless hustle.
    Not work-until-you-die discipline.

    But the creation of a life where effort becomes optional instead of mandatory.

    Where time returns to you.

    Where leadership moves from survival to legacy.

    In the end, money reveals leadership character more than it creates it.

    The flow tells the story.

    Where it goes.
    What it builds.
    What it preserves.
    What it gives.

    And maybe the deepest truth is this:

    Leadership is not about controlling people.
    It is about directing energy — your own first.

    Because once you learn to direct the flow downstream of your effort, you stop living at the mercy of the crank.

    And that is where freedom begins.

  • A Day OUT

    A few days ago, South Florida was cold.

    Not metaphorically cold. Actually cold. The kind of cold that makes you retreat indoors, wrap your hands around a warm cup, and postpone the idea of being outside. The park benches were empty. The air carried a sharp edge.

    And then today happened.

    The sun returned like it had something to prove.

    It didn’t blaze. It flowed. Waves of warmth settle on skin, deliberate and steady. You could feel it — not just as temperature, but as energy. The kind that reminds you that seasons shift whether you’re ready or not.

    Sensei Yaniv Rosenberg gave us a simple assignment:

    Under the sun

    Go outside.
    No music.
    No distractions.
    Just be there.

    It sounded almost too small to matter.

    But the smallest disciplines often reveal the largest truths.

    So I walked.

    No earbuds. No podcast. No phone in hand, performing productivity. Just silence.

    And when you remove noise, something curious happens. You begin to notice.

    The birds were not background noise — they were conversation.
    A mother pushed her child in a stroller, moving at the unhurried pace of someone who understands that time is not the enemy.
    Children ran in widening circles, testing gravity and balance as if they had just discovered both.

    And then there were the trees.

    One in particular stood behind me — branches extended, but stripped. No leaves. Bare.

    Where are the leaves? I wondered.

    A few days ago, that same tree might have looked like it had lost something. Today, in the light, it looked like it was preparing for something.

    Sometimes you have to fall to regenerate.

    Leaves drop. Not as a failure. But as a strategy.

    Inside the trunk, invisible to everyone passing by, something is rebuilding. Energy is rerouting. Life is reorganizing itself for the next season.

    We mistake stillness for weakness.
    We mistake shedding for loss.

    But nature never confuses transition with defeat.

    As I walked, another thought surfaced — quiet but firm:

    Tough times do not last. Tough people do.

    It’s easy to repeat that line in a gym. It’s harder to feel it in the cold season. But standing under the sun today, feeling warmth where wind once cut through, it made sense differently.

    Weather changes.
    Circumstances change.
    Seasons rotate without consulting our preferences.

    The question is whether we rotate with them — or resist them.

    Being part of the One Percent Club isn’t about pushups. It’s not about supplements or reading ten minutes of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, though we do that too.

    It’s about training perception.

    With my friend Marcus Aurelius

    Marcus Aurelius ruled an empire. But his greatest discipline was not external command — it was internal governance. He understood that the only true territory a man controls is his response.

    Walking in silence today, I realized something simple:

    Community changes your standards.

    Left alone, you might skip the walk. You might rationalize staying inside. You might scroll instead of observing.

    But when a leader says, “Go outside,” you go. And in going, you discover you needed it.

    When you are part of a community of men striving to be better — across South Florida, the Carolinas, Europe — you rise slightly above your default setting. Not dramatically. Just one percent.

    And one percent, compounded daily, becomes transformation.

    I felt gratitude rising almost involuntarily.

    Grateful to feel the sun.
    Grateful to see.
    Grateful to breathe.
    Grateful for a teacher who understands that discipline is not always loud.

    Sometimes discipline looks like silence in a park.

    We are a small part of something vast. A tiny element in a much larger design. The trees rebuild unseen. The birds continue their rhythm. Mothers push strollers. Children run. The sun returns.

    And somewhere in that ordinary scene, a man decides not to drift.

    Not today.

    If you want to grow faster than you would alone, join a community that expects more from you than comfort does.

    Sometimes becoming stronger begins with something as simple as standing in the sun — and noticing that it never stopped shining. Never.

    #oss

  • “Do the Right Thing,” A life story lesson from Jiu Jitsu Sensei Yaniv Rosenberg

    This last Monday night, at YR Jiu-Jitsu, the dojo feels like a tide pool after a stormwarm air, soft light, bodies cooling on the mat.
    Drills finished. Sparring done.
    Breath replaces movement.

    We sit around Sensei Yaniv Rosenberg
    the way travelers gather around a small fire—
    quiet, tired, open.

    He looks at us, and in the stillness he says:

    “Awesome training, guys!”

    Everybody claps.

    Sensei looked at us for a long moment. Then he said:

    “It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing.
    It’s never the right time to do the wrong thing.”

    No technique.
    No demonstration.
    Just a story.

    The Test

    Years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma,
    Sensei walked into a cold room at a bank—
    the kind without cameras,
    without witnesses.

    Under a table,
    a bag.
    Inside: diamonds.
    Thousands of dollars in stones.

    He was broke then.
    Desperate.
    The kind of desperate that makes wrong things look reasonable.

    He stepped outside, heart pounding.
    He called his father.

    “Dad, what do I do?”

    A quiet answer:

    “You already know.”

    And the line went dead.

    So he went back.
    Handed the bag to the manager.
    Asked him to write everything down.
    Left empty-handed,
    but not empty.

    The Return

    Two weeks later, his wallet disappeared into the hurricane wind.
    Gone.

    Until a brown envelope arrived—
    wallet untouched,
    cash untouched,
    everything returned.

    Months passed.

    A call from the bank:

    “We found the owner.
    She wants to give you $2,000.”

    He refused.

    Because the moment of truth had already happened.
    And truth doesn’t need a reward.

    The Lesson

    Sensei looks around the circle.

    “Maybe it’s money.
    Maybe it’s someone’s partner.
    Maybe it’s a position that isn’t yours.
    Whatever it is—
    walk away from what doesn’t belong to you.”

    He pauses.

    “When you build that kind of character,
    life notices.
    Blessings find you.
    Quietly.
    Unexpectedly.”

    The room is silent.
    No one moves.

    Jiu-Jitsu teaches technique,
    but it also teaches this:

    When pressure comes,
    be unshakable.
    When nobody is watching,
    stand straight.

    When choosing who you want to be—
    choose the one who returns the diamonds.

    Because in life,
    as in Jiu-Jitsu,
    the path is simple:

    Do the right thing.

  • A Way OUT Of The Debt Trap

    National economies worldwide used a financial system founded upon debt. This leads people to a life and death struggle with this monetary system created by the financial elites to maintain their power and plunder rules.

    “It is the long term trends that a debt-based financial system fosters a situation where the creation and supply of money is now left almost entirely to banks and other lending institutions,” wrote British monetary reformer Michael Rowbotham explaining the effects of the  debt trap upon our society today.

    Money is created in parallel with debt. When banks make loans, they create new money out of thin air to loan it to people who would spend their lifetime to pay it back with real work.

    “The stream of money generated by people, businesses and governments constantly borrowing from banks and other lending institutions is relied upon to supply the economy as a whole. Thus the supply of money depends upon people going into debt, and the level of debt within an economy is no more than a measure of the amount of money that has been created…” commented Rowbotham.

    He added that ‘bank-credit constitutes a dysfunctional form of money. Bank credit engenders financial dependence, injects instability and fosters growth-distortions, both within an economy and throughout the international arena.”

    A financial revolution

    Reforming the debt-based financial system is a major issue. It  involves a sly roundabout to gradually alter the very foundations upon which national and international economics is based.

    “The best thing for each person to do is launch a financial revolution where he lives below his means and wipes out ALL of his debs including credit cards, student loans, car loans, and even mortgages,” wrote New York Times bestselling author Orrin Woodward who just released a book named “Insidious: The Rise of The Financial matrix and the Fall of Economic Freedom.”

    “In the process of wiping out personal debt, one also reduces the money supply created by that debt,” Woodward said adding that “It’s really a simple, but not easy choice.”

    Our society dominated by the main media entertainment industry  wants products and services instantly that it will sell itself into debt-slavery in order to obtain them at the price of their long term gratification and wealth creation.

    That big debt problem creates a bib business opportunity for those who can educate themselves and to apply the three keys to wealth to their finances, as taught by Woodward and his community of leaders,  by taking a longer term perspective, delaying their gratification, and start leveraging the effects of compounding to their benefit.

    It all starts with the individual. When a person decides to end his debt-enslavement, he becomes the model for others to follow.

    Woodward coined the concept of “The Financial Matrix” to describe a web of debt trap that enslaved 95% of the people who work as employees or self-employed with no time and money leverage.

    Money is the lifeblood of the global economy. It affects directly nearly every person, business, and government on the planet.

    Since antiquity, there has been a continuous power-grab for the controlling of the money supply which is intentionally obscured and buried today under academic blessing and media approval.

    Illusion vs Reality

    “The Financial Matrix is the real system of control that enslaves billions of people. It does this by lending fake money to be paid back by real labor, all while making us believe that we are free.” wrote Woodward.

    The system makes us believe that our perception is reality. We have an optical illusion with the system playing in our brain that we are owners.

    Not only the system manipulated the individual human being but also nations around the globe just like john Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man self-described his macabre plans to control developing nations.

    “…My real job…was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay… So we make this loan, most of it comes back to the United States (Banks), the country is left with a lot of debt plus interest, and they become our servants, our slaves,” wrote Perkins who incriminates himself as an economic assassin, an accessory to the criminal, unjust and fraudulent financial empire through manipulation, cheating, and seducing ignorant people.

    There’s a Way Out of the financial morass of the debt trap which relies on ignorance and apathy of the people in order to create its power and profits for the financial empire.

    Woodward makes it his lifetime purpose to expose the plunderous nature of our current financial system. In this sense, he follows Buckminster Fuller’s advice:

    “ You never change things by fighting the existing realty. In order to change something, you need to build a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.”

    Woodward is using the same academic and professional rigor that he used as a system engineer to lead a consumer rebellion community of business owners powered by a payment platform in partnership with hundreds of national brand stores.

    This is an alternative to the credit card system which is considered a gateway debt.

    This alternate system has already helped thousands of people terminate their debt and it can help others do the same and live the live they’ve always wanted.

  • The Elephant and the blind men

    For centuries, Sufi Masters have been using short stories to teach their spiritual disciples important life lessons.

    Below you’ll read one of my favorite Sufi stories: “The Elephant and the blind men,” and I invite you to share your perspective on what point you make out of it.

    Once there was a city, the inhabitants of which were all blind. They had heard of elephants and were curious to see [sic] one face to face. They were still full of this desire when one day a caravan arrived and camped outside the city. There was an elephant in the caravan.

    When the inhabitants of the city heard there was an elephant in the caravan, the wisest and most intelligent men of the city decided to go out and see the elephant. A number of them left the city and went to the place where the elephant was.

    One stretched out his hands, grasped the elephant’s ear, and perceived something resembling a shield. This man decided that the elephant looked like a shield.

    Another stretched out his hands, grasped the elephant’s trunk, and perceived something resembling a club. This man decided that the elephant looked like a club.

    A third stretched out his hands, grasped the elephant’s leg, and perceived something like a pillar.  He decided that the elephant looked like a pillar.

    A fourth stretched his hands, grasped the elephant’s back, and perceived something like a seat. He decided that the elephant looked like a seat.

    Delighted, they all returned to the city.

    After one had gone back to his quarters, the people asked: “Did see the elephant?” Each one answered yes.

    They asked: “What does he look like? What kind of shape has he?” Then one in his quarters replied: “The elephant looks like a shield. 

    And the second man in the second quarter: “The elephant looks like a club.” +

    The third man in the third quarter: “The elephant looks like a pillar.”

    And the fourth man in the fourth quarter: “The elephant looks like a seat.”

    And inhabitants of each quarter formed their opinion in accord; with what they had heard.

    Now when the different conceptions came into contact with one another, it became evident that they were contradictory. Each blind man found fault with the next and began to advance proofs in support of his own view and in confutation of the views of the others.

    They called these proofs rational and scriptural proofs.

    One said: “It is written in war the elephant is sent out ahead of the army. Consequently, the elephant must be a kind of shield.”

    The second said: “It is written that in war the elephant hurls himself at the hostile army and that the hostile army is thereby shattered.  Consequently, the elephant must be a kind of club.”

    The third said: “It is written that the elephant carries a weight thousand men and more without effort. Consequently, the elephant must be a kind of pillar.”

    The fourth said: “It is written that so and so many people can sit in comfort on an elephant. Consequently, the elephant must be a kind of seat.”

    What’s the moral/point of that story?

  • SELF: Single Element Leadership Failure

    I had the pleasure to listen to an audio from Terry Brady on Rascal Radio this morning entitled SELF: Single Element Leadership Failure.

    It comes to my mind to share with you some questions she raised that might get you thinking about your own “SELF.”

    “SELF,” she said, “is most of the time associated with a negative context.”

    The list can be as long as the following:

    Self-image

    Self-confidence

    Self-deception

    Selfishness (even if there’s no real fish in this one…)

    Self-centered

    Self-pity

    Self-etc…

    When we focus too much on SELF, we live with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty.

    Instead of SELF, put your focus on others, and on SERVICE.

    And, that can make a lot of difference.

    @rooseveltj

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  • Charlotte Friborg invites you to “make your own money again,” and live your whole life now.

    Charlotte Friborg invites you to “make your own money again,” and to shine your light with purpose and balance.

    What a delight! What a sublime call to you at this present moment!

    Charlotte invites you to connect you with your own inner being, and act in the real world to use your gifts, talents, and abilities to the betterment of life.

    Using the power of simple words to tell her own story, Charlotte challenges you to expand yourself beyond your immediate family space and time to reach your full potential and the wholeness of existence.

    This a great book. I enjoy it. I read it in a trait flipping and tapping pages after pages on my cellphone. I had to pause, reflect, and ponder.

    Although, Charlotte targets mostly stayed at home moms who want to get back on the market after years of fruitful family focus, as a man, I connect with her through reading her prose by thinking through, and pondering about my own life’s journey in my “own unique way in a Perfectly Imperfect world.

    It’s always a pleasure to read a book from some one I know personally, or someone I can interact with beyond the written words.

    It’s even more satisfying to read Charlotte’s work because for the last two years, I’ve had a front row seat to observe her growth, and achievement.

    I’m even fortunate to have had several conversations with her which led me to connect deeper to her story, and testimony.

    I went through the book from cover to cover. I completed the circle and kept my promise to the author’s request to read to the end.

    My purpose, in this note, is not to resume the book. I want you to read it yourself and share the feelings, and emotions of the words sipping through you and calling you to act and to live the life you want.

    “Make Your Own Money Again” is your navigation guide in the high seas of this “perfectly imperfect world.”

    The book goes beyond money, fame, and power to shape an inner framework to make you you again.

    Charlotte’s total “360 Degree Life Mastery” and profound references to wisdom, and leadership literature is the right instrument you can use to examine your wheel of life of these areas: intimate relationship, family, self-care (body, mind, spirit) , money, career, social life, society, home.

    Sow the seed of reading “Make your own money again,” be ready to start reaping the rewards of a life worth living, and dreams worth pursuing.

    To enjoy reading the book, here’s a link : Make Your Own Money Again. Shine Your Light With Purpose and Balance. Charlotte Friborg.

  • What do you see: problems or opportunities?

    November7

  • Tiger Woods is back to the top. How his ladder climbing out of a slump can help you climb your own ladder?

    I don’t play Golf. I even don’t understand the game in its entirety. If I had to explain it, I would say- and correct me if I am wrong- this is a game played by affluent people who have time, money, and prestige on large pristine green grass open-air courses where they discuss business, politics and make deals. The end result is to stroke a small white ball with a club into some small holes in the ground. Sometimes, I heard 18 or 21 holes.

    That’s it. That’s all I know.

    I also know that Tiger Wood is a golf famed winner. He went from fame to shame after his character and reputation have been widely gone under water after some personal issues in his life, which have also impacted negatively his professional ability to perform.

    This emotional saga associated with physical pains led him wonder, just last year, if he would ever play again. He thought he was done. Now look what he’s done.

    Last Sunday, he was able to emerge from the funk and win again. Sport analysts rank his last win as impressive as some of his greatest victories.

    in an interview, Woods described what his rock bottom moment was, his dread, and what he did not want.

    “Probably the low point was not knowing if I’d ever be able to live pain-free again,” Woods said. “Am I going to be able to sit, stand, walk, lay down without feeling the pain that I was in. I just didn’t want to live that way. This is how the rest of my life is going to be? It’s going to be a tough rest of my life. And so … I was beyond playing. I couldn’t sit. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t lay down without feeling the pain in my back and my leg. That was a pretty low point for a very long time.”

    Let me just repeat what kept my attention in this interview:  “It’s going to be a tough rest of my life.”

    I go ahead to reflect, think, and ponder about this statement. I put it in perspective, and I pull out a tool, a book I read from the Life Leadership Essentials Series, entitled LADDER, Climbing out of a slump, and to never let a good slump go to waste.

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    I ask myself what can I learn and share from Tiger Woods’ slump experience. This is a good one to learn from and to not let it go to waste. what can we learn from our slumps and not let them go to waste.

    LADDER Climbing out of a Slump, forwarded by Dan Hawkins, a bestselling author, life-coach, and successful entrepreneur, is a book, a tool that will help you discover the art of a slump, and how to take action immediately and effectively.

    In my next post, I will share with you the art of climbing a slump, and actions to be taken to live the life you’ve always wanted.

    Be well,

    #Rooseveltjeanfrancois (Rooseveltjanfranswa)

    @rooseveltjf

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  • Build confidence, destroy fear, and live the life you want. No regrets!

    The following notes are from The Magic of Thinking Big, an outstanding self-development book, published by Dr. David Schwartz.

    Fear is real. Fear is psychological. It’s success enemy No 1.

    Fear stops people from capitalizing on opportunity; fear wears down physical vitality; fear actually makes people sick, causes organic difficulties, shortens life; fear closes your mouth when you want to speak.

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    Fear a powerful force.

    All confidence is acquired, developed, and nurtured. No one is born with confidence of the world. You take a big step toward conquering fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

    You can conquer fear of people  if you will learn to put them in “proper perspective.”

    How do you face your fears?

    How do you build your confidence?