Couples Money Challenge
Cupid’s Arrow. It’s an appropriate symbol of the Valentine’s Day holiday and of relationships in general. Valentine’s Day is a holiday that comes with a host of challenges and it’s not uncommon for it to be exciting, romantic, and full of love. It’s also common to come across as painful, insufferable and miserable for a number of people. When it comes to relationships and couples it’s almost as big of a day as your anniversary is. Valentine’s Day is also an expensive holiday, the price of roses spikes, cheap chocolates are pushed to the side and replaced by expensive and your average lunch or dinner goes from a normal night out to a price fixed menu or brunch or special that all of sudden is on a whole new level of expense compared to a regular date out. This holiday isn’t just about your relationship with your partner it’s also about your relationship with money. One partner might expect a lavish, expensive evening out with extravagant gifts. Maybe the other partner just wants a night in, together. This kind of friction can lead to conflict, anxiety, anger, depression and a host of other relationship challenges. In a recent conversation JB asked The Doctor his thoughts on couples relationships with each other and money and how to overcome some of the challenges we run across since we are less than a week away from Cupid and his arrows! JB: Doc, is there a specific challenge or are there any common strings or threads that you run across with couples when you’re discussing the relationship with each other and money? The Doctor: “The biggest thing is communication, or the lack there of usually leads into the biggest challenges (for example). Now, I don’t want to talk about this, right? Or even past that, I’m afraid to talk about this because I don’t know what the reaction is going to be. So they put up the walls. Before the communication even starts. And they could possibly even be on the same page on a lot of the stuff, but just the fear of even having that conversation drives a lot of it, and I think it makes a difference. Again, different people, different situations, is it a new relationship, are you guys just starting to date, did you just move in together? That plays one role. Are we about to get married? Is there a pre-nup? Do we have to discuss it in that way? There’s another part of the role, and we’ve been together for decades and it’s just become old hat and we’ve changed our financial situation, or we changed our interest, our needs, do we need to re-address that conversation and what does that look like? Because we don’t like change. So there’s so many different ways this plays out, depending on what situation you’re in, but across the board, it always comes back to communication.” Communication is essential for any relationship whether it’s in our personal lives or with the work we do and the businesses we run. We have a private Facebook group available for those of you looking for more insight into how to manage our lives and our businesses: The Entrepreneur Mastery Lab. In the lab we focus on topics like these and others as we help people develop and maintain a Be RICH mindset.Rise to MasteryInspire GreatnessCelebrate KnowledgeHelp Others For an invitation to the group you can go here! You may also (this is strongly encouraged) want to take a look at our Time Mastery With Science course where we walk through EXACTLY how to manage your day and your time. For those of you looking for even more assistance, we offer 2 on 1 coaching for service based professionals and entrepreneurs where we are hyper focused on improving positioning and presentation, powering up your productivity and supercharging your sales.
Tom Brady, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Be RICH mindset.
In our most recent quick hit episode of our podcast, JB and The Doctor, Mastery With Science we explored how incredible it is to see Tom Brady’s journey from a back-up quarterback at the University of Michigan to an individual with more Super Bowl rings than any single FRANCHISE. One of the items we focused on was how Tom Brady epitomizes the Be RICH mindset. Yes, we all know he IS rich, but what does it mean to Be RICH? R – Rise to mastery. Nobody can argue Tom Brady’s ascension as an absolute master of his craft. Tom was plugged into a brand new system during a pandemic, with limited opportunity to develop a rapport with his teammates, and still managed to lead his team to a win at the super bowl. His mastery cannot be disputed and has taken years to develop. Perhaps most importantly, Tom continues to hone his skillset and push the boundaries of what it means to be masterful at the quarterback position. I – Inspire greatness. What isn’t inspiring about a leader who continues to display excellence even at an age far beyond the norm in his industry. Tom Brady is the sole remaining player in his draft class and is still the pinnacle of efficiency and effectiveness in his role as a quarterback. Add to that the fire and passion he still carries for the game and his business and it’s incredibly inspiring to watch him play. C – Celebrate knowledge. How do you take someone that plays under a different playbook and integrate them into your own system successfully? Now that we’ve chewed on that, how do you do it and overcome all of the challenges that come up and end up as the most successful team in the country. The only way to do it is to truly embrace KNOWING the business. Mastery is all about knowledge, knowledge not only of your own playbook and system but on others. Know your competitors and know the strategies that work. Tom Brady is a phenomenal example of someone who truly celebrates the knowledge he has. He is like having an offensive coordinator in the huddle with the rest of your team. H – Helping Others. Football is a team sport. In that sense, it shouldn’t matter if Tom Brady is the quarterback or not, the team won, not Tom. Yet, if we take a look at Tampa Bay’s postseason record let alone their Superbowl record it becomes pretty apparent that Tom Brady was able to help the organization in a way that is unique. Awesome. More importantly, at this moment is Bruce Arians’ role in helping others. Bruce will go down in history as the first head football coach with all 4 of his coordinators being minorities, as well as having the first team to ever carry two full time coaching positions held by women. Incredible. Helping others is about giving back so that others can achieve. When we lift others, we rise with them. Helping others is an essential part of the Be RICH mindset. If you believe in the Be RICH mindset we encourage you to listen to the rest of our podcast here. Tom Brady, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Be RICH mindset – Episode 24. Keep an eye out for our upcoming private Facebook group. Designed to create a space for service-based professionals and entrepreneurs to give and get back it is built on the bedrock of our value system. The Be RICH mindset is a way of life and core tenets to JB and The Doctor, Mastery With Science.