Four Pillars

Pillar 1 – Discipline & Focus

Tools to help you focus on what matters and strengthen habits.

Ask Ray any question

A mentoring-style guide to clarify priorities, tackle “tough things first,” and make disciplined decisions.

How do I establish good habits?

Build and reinforce habits aligned with your values using daily check-ins, habit loops, and weekly reviews.

Do I have to work 80 hours a week to succeed?

Reflect on sustainable discipline and design a focused, high-output work life without burning out.

Pillar 2 – Built to Last

Guidance for durable companies, careers, and lives.

How do I create a company that lasts decades?

Explore principles for building long-lasting companies: cash discipline, customer loyalty, strong culture, and product quality.

How do I have a life and career that is built to last?

Use Ray’s principles as a compass for decisions about work, family, finances, and service—aimed at long-term alignment.

Help me create a lean startup business plan

A step-by-step business plan coach that helps founders clarify problem, solution, metrics, risks, and go-to-market with a built-to-last mindset.

Pillar 3 – People & Culture

Tools for hiring, teams, and culture building.

How do I hire for character, not résumé?

Design interview questions and scorecards that surface integrity, grit, humility, and learning velocity—instead of focusing only on credentials.

How do I give employee reviews that matter?

Leadership tool guiding managers to craft balanced, performance-driven reviews that build trust, growth, and clear conversations.

How do I build trust within my team?

Enables leaders to intentionally build trust through reliability, follow-through, transparency, consistency, and daily leadership actions.

Pillar 4 – Character & Faith

Tools for perspective, gratitude, and inner strength.

How do I lead a happy life?

Daily reflection prompts rooted in gratitude, service, and perspective, helping you cultivate durable joy through challenges.

How do leaders recover when hope is low?

Enables leaders to move forward confidently during uncertainty by clarifying ownership and defining practical next steps.

How do I stay ethical under pressure?

Helps leaders identify ethical drift and make disciplined decisions when pressure, shortcuts, or rationalizations justify compromise.