I’ve been listening to MJ DeMarco’s The Millionaire Fastlane on repeat. He separates what can be made to look like wealth from what actually functions as wealth, and that distinction is less about appearance and more about whether something can sustain itself without constant effort to keep it looking the way it does.

That idea keeps returning in different forms, particularly in spaces where outcomes are shared more often than the systems that produced them, and where interpretation fills in the gaps without being acknowledged as interpretation.

Over time, the risk is less about being misled by someone else and more about building your own decisions on top of something you haven’t fully examined, assuming that what you’re seeing carries more underneath it than it actually does.

Strategic Reflection Prompt:

Where are you accepting something as evidence without fully understanding how it works?

About Giselle

For nearly three decades, I’ve worked with leaders across the Caribbean facing problems that keep returning, solutions that haven’t delivered the expected results, or changes that prove difficult to implement.

When I ask business owners what problem they can’t seem to solve, the answer is usually “people.”

So I ask them to tell me more, because people and businesses are rarely as simple as they first appear.

I help them understand what’s really causing the problem before they spend more money trying to fix it. And where needed, I help design an appropriate solution and work with their teams to implement it effectively.

What are you trying to make sense of right now?