Last week I did a 4 day anniversary Lifebook session in Chicago with an AMAZING group, deeply thinking through my Lifebook, my life vision and everything that matters in my life. Ironically I found myself cutting and deleting more than adding. Overall, the theme was simplification. A very powerful process but one that would have been doomed from the beginning if I hadn’t done one simple thing first. I had to figure out where what I was starting with. In terms of financial intelligence and wealth there’s no more important question to ask then, where am at right now? It’s fascinating to hear friends and clients tell me how stressed they are financially. When I ask them why so stressed, the answer: “because I’m working 80 hours a week and barely keeping up.” I ask why and they say because I have to, I have responsibilities. Sound familiar? So what do you do? Start with these 2 questions...

Written by Lifebook Member Damion Lupo Over the last few months I started noticing a consistent response when I’d ask people how they were doing with their goals.  I heard one thing more than anything else: “I’m working hard, making progress and moving forward.” Everyone seemed to be using a check-box goal system comprised of visualization + action to drive their lives towards success.  But then I started to think. What if this process is wrong?  What if this process completely masks the key to happiness?