I had a great weekend celebrating the holidays with my family and it totally slipped my mind to keep my 10+ Skool activity streak going. If you are unaware: after 30 days of consistently liking 10 posts a day (or commenting & posting), Skool gives you a 🔥 emoji next to your name. I was nearly there! and I failed! But I suppose it was worth it to host my family at our house today. Back to it - Day 1 (again) Who else is counting those solid green 🟩 in their profile?

Hello Everyone. New member here . Hoping to meet some great people. happy holidays.

I heard something the other day that stuck with me. It wasn't the specific quote (because honestly I can't remember it) but the idea was powerful, here's my take on it: Procrastination is really just a misplaced fear of the immediate discomfort of taking action over the true fear of not reaching your full potential. If you do nothing, what happens? You stagnate, struggle & eventually look back on your life with regret. And if you take action to achieve your dreams? It's painful - you have to do difficult things out of your comfort zone. Neither way is pleasant - life is hard. Personally, I'd like to be the master of my own destiny and choose to seek discomfort... What do you think is worse, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

When I turned 18, I was faced with the sophisticated choice every American teenager is meant to make with extreme clairvoyance and levelheadedness. Go to college or Go to work In the contemporary professional climate, both choices are laden with their own respective risk. Over-qualification seems to be a phenomenon in the developed world, while higher education offers unparalleled social & educational development, it continues to be framed as the “safe bet” in the prevailing narrative. Influenced by my father's "get up & go" old school American bootstrap values, I decided take the road less traveled and get to work. I moved around the continental US for a while, exploring different career paths trying to find my place. I held a couple different jobs, I was: - a bouncer at a famous Jersey Shore nightclub - a Los Angeles mailroom clerk - a roadie for a Hasidic DJ for weddings in Brooklyn - a hillbilly carpenter - an assembly-line worker in a solar panel factory But after a while, I eventually got my "big break." At 21, I was hired as a junior project manager for a residential construction company in the upscale neighborhood of Rumson, NJ. I was making what felt like serious money at the time: $16.50 an hour. Very quickly in my new position, I realized that I had a lot to learn. I had some experience with woodwork & light electrical, but I was employed by a general contractor. I needed to know a little of everything to communicate between subs, keep track of projects, and be a point of contact for the homeowner. I had no particular edge, so I got to looking. I began to realize that (at least within the northern Jersey shore area) different cultures occupied different trades in the construction industry. It tended to loosely follow this structure: - Millwork & Finishing: Eastern European (Slavs, Poles, Slovaks) - Framing, Gypsum, & Roofing: Latinos (Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadorians) - Flooring: Brazilians - Masonry: European Portugueses - HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, & Insulation: Americans

Skool has a great feature to reward a "streak" of activity on the platform. When you rack up 30 days of consistently liking/commenting/posting a combined total of 10 times per day - you'll get a little 🔥 emoji next to your name - @Iván Terrero is the first in the group to earn one! I'm working on earning my own because consistency is key in business. I hope to see a lot more 🔥 around here soon! (at the very least, all you have to do is press the 👍 button on at least 10 posts in the community per day - and that activity helps out our group a ton - so get to liking!!)