Sharpening your Razor

It’s Book Club week (join us here if you’re curious—no reading required, and this week’s theme is True Riches) and in preparation I was reading The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom.

One of his core ideas is this: “Everything comes from what you put first.” He recommends developing a “life razor”, explaining a razor as a principle that allows you to quickly remove unlikely explanations or avoid unnecessary steps to simplify decision making. (He provides a few examples, such as Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”)

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Learning our Way into 2025

Even though our priorities should flow from our values, when I help clients articulate their values, I don’t start there. I’d rather get to know them a bit first, individually or as an organization, and then reflect back to them what seems to be important to them so that their values are highly personalized to them. (Otherwise, if you ask folks what they value right up front, they’ll always say “integrity, accountability and respect.” Who doesn’t??)

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Beauty and Spaciousness

I’ve just returned from two weeks in Spain.

Europe is far more densely populated than Canada, and so it was even more remarkable to us how much space is devoted to public enjoyment there. Gardens, boulevards, boardwalks, parks, playgrounds, cathedrals — all in urban spaces that would be far more likely given over to concrete and commerce where I live.

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