Gooooood morning! I’m sitting on my balcony and the sun is beaming in my eyes so I’m squinting at the screen. My neighbors just let out their dogs to take their morning piss on this mat of grass that they’ve been trained to urinate on. They have these two little beige pugs named Ricco and Rocco. Those aren’t actually their real names but it’s what I would have named them. I’m going to steal them one day. Anyway, let’s talk about how to get lucky. Some people say luck doesn’t exist. Others believe everyone who’s successful gets lucky. In my opinion, both of the above statements are true, even though they’re contradictory. This is called a paradox, in case you slept through that part of English class. I watched a movie last night that had Miles Teller in it and began thinking about how you end up as a world famous actor. Sure, he’s great at what he does. But so are the tens of thousands of broke actors. There are plenty of people with the same look, talent, and work ethic. Why is he one of few who makes it? Is it luck? No. Well, yes. Well, kind of. If you run a quick Google search on Miles Teller, you’ll see that he made his first feature film in 2010. Three years later, he starred in “The Spectacular Now” which put him on the map. And then the film, “Whiplash” a year later was his big breakthrough. Now he’s one of the more popular actors and was recently in Top Gun with Tom Cruise. But you don’t hear about all the projects that flopped. From 2004-2010 he was in a bunch of movies neither of us have ever heard of. Then he had a few “big breaks” and his life changed forever. This is how success works. The majority of the time that you put in, especially in the beginning, will feel like it’s all for nothing. You’ll think to yourself, “why am I even working this hard? Nobody’s gonna notice me anyway.” It’s an uphill battle and you have no idea where the top of the hill is. You just keep climbing and hope that eventually you find it, which isn’t guaranteed.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, But your value as an individual is directly correlated to how much money you have in the bank. And before you start losing your mind that I just said that, stop and think about it for a second. Most of the time, those who are rich (Business owners, entrepreneurs etc.), have spent so much time acquiring skills that they have become indispensable. Or even if you want to look at it from a corporate perspective. Higher-paying jobs will always require a large skill set from the applicant. It is very rare that you see someone with zero skills at anything making a lot of money. And yes, I’m talking about the hawk tuah girl. Seriously what is wrong with our society… Anyway. My point still stands, the more value you have in the form of high-value skills and knowledge, the more you will get paid. In my circumstances, I chose to learn the ATM biz inside and out. And now I’m able to leverage those skills and that knowledge into cold hard cash every day through the machines I’ve set up. So just remember, skills pay bills. Talk to you tomorrow, Griff.