All right, good morning everyone. I was eating at Nas's fried chicken restaurant last week, and I had a thought, how could life be better?

I'm with eight of my friends, only six of them I really like, and we're literally eating chicken and waffles in a restaurant

co-owned by my favorite rapper of all time and would inexplicably drinking champagne with this

meal.

I did not pay for the champagne.

How could life be better?

How could life be better?

There is a cosmic scoreboard that hangs over all of our heads

and we forget that it's up there but it's really really

important to look up and to say you know what things are working out we're

we're we're earning points points and they're deserved. No one's giving us any points.

And I mean that as individuals, but I mean that also as a firm.

We talked recently about breaking a billion dollars in assets. It's just the start. There's no finish line. The

scoreboard is still running, okay? And when we think about how could life be better,

this concept, and it's something that we try to import to our clients, we try to remind them that they're on track in different types of markets and in different environments.

We try to remind them when they come to us with issues they're having or

conundrums that they face. I might sell my business this year. We might have to move. I have health issues.

One of my kids is not doing well in school. We try to remind people, yeah,

there are challenges and there are things that we have to deal with. But overall, how could life

be better? Very hard to picture for most of the people that we cater to. they're in a good place in life.

They're in a good place in the grand scheme of things compared to many other people in this

country that aren't as fortunate. I think they get that and I think it's important

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