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Healing Trauma, the Ultra-Successful and Delayed Gratification
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Be Better, Achieve More and Become Financially Free.
Be Better
This week on the Growth Guide Podcast we talked to Mary Firestone, author of Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy after Trauma,
Mary draws on her own healing journey and clinical background to provide a playbook for healing from trauma and awakening to more joy through post-traumatic growth.
We talked about trauma with a small t and Capital T and explore different ways to heal from it, including:
EMDR
Qigong
Talk to heal
Aromatherapy
Movement therapy
Post-Trauma Growth
We’re not trying to get the trauma out or remove it. The goal is to have it be part of our story. Not the Story.
Listen to our conversation here: The Growth Guide Podcast

Achieve More
Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
- Michelle Obama
Ultra-successful people share three common traits:
High self-confidence - they believe they can achieve anything. Often because they have achieved great things.
Low self-regard - they never feel good enough. No matter what they’re doing, they’re always pushing themselves to do more.
Impulse control - delayed gratification is one of the keys to their success. Being able to focus on the process long enough to go from Suck → Good → Great.
You can read more about the traits of the ultra-successful here.

Become Financially Free
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
The benefits of delayed gratification are high.
When you delay gratification, you’re more willing to stay focused on the task at hand.
Growing your wealth is not about getting rich quickly, it’s about growing sustainable wealth over a long time horizon.
I often say, if you show me someone’s investing horizon, it will have a high correlation with their future wealth.
Read more about delayed gratification here.

A Thought
I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote lately:
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.
A Question
How does your unconscious wiring hold you back?
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