Before I was fired from Wall Street, I wrote a business plan detailing how I would develop client relationships and bring revenue to the brokerage firm looking to hire me. I called it the “Morton Wealth Management Business Plan”. It confused the branch manager who reminded me that I was working for Smith Barney, not […]
We’ve all heard the saying that luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. I have found in both my life and my career that amazing things happen when VISION meets preparation. In life, marriage, and business, there are no smooth rides. But it is possible to build a mindset rooted in optimism and confidence that helps […]
As we approach Super Bowl Weekend, I’ve been thinking about the characteristics of the teams, players, and leaders who make it to the peak of their sport. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” Greatness as a function of where we focus attention got me thinking […]
The best prediction that I ever made was not a prediction at all. It was more of an observation. In the summer of 2019, I wrote about The Good Old Days and presented this idea: What if these are the days you will look back on and say “Remember when…?” As it turned out, compared […]
Biographies can produce sharp turns in the way we see ourselves and the agency that we have in the world. Reading about a great life lived, we often walk away saying “How could one person have done all that?” Two biographies stand out for having produced such moments for me: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt […]