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Global Minds Consultants Financial consultant/Author with 30+ years experience helping business owners get clarity on their numbers, stop the leaks, and build businesses that last.

You can know exactly how your business is performing and still overlook what that performance is costing you.I’m bringin...
10/26/2026

You can know exactly how your business is performing and still overlook what that performance is costing you.

I’m bringing The Life Audit to a new article series for founders, examining five accounts our financial statements leave out: time, relationships, values, impact, and story.

This opening article asks a question worth making time for: Is the business you’re building supporting the life you intended to live?

Start with the Master Audit—a ten-minute reflection to identify one gap and one change worth making.

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10/26/2026

Your life has accounts your financial statements will never show. 📊

We audit revenue. Margin. Cash flow.
We don't audit the life that built the business.

A founder can file a clean set of books and still be insolvent in the places that matter most.

In The Life Audit (Link In Bio), I call them the 5 Life Accounts:

1. Time — Your only non-renewable inventory
2. Relationships — Your relational capital
3. Values — Your internal controls
4. Impact — The return no P&L can capture
5. Story — The narrative in the footnotes

Revenue tells you if the business survived. These accounts tell you if you did.

Do the 10-minute Master Audit today. Ask yourself:

• Time: Where did my last 100 hours actually go vs where I said they would?

• Relationships: Who have I been borrowing from to fund my business?

• Values: Where has a small compromise become a policy?

• Impact: Who can point to a moment I changed their life?

• Story: If my life were read back to me today, would I recognize the person I intended to be?

Drop one variance you noticed below. I read every comment.

Link in bio for The Life Audit.

10/25/2026

Twenty-seven years later, her piano book was still on page one.

She bought the piano at 35, promising herself she'd learn when life slowed down.

At 62, she was still waiting.
Until her daughter pulled out the piano bench and said:
“Well, you've got five minutes.”

The first notes sounded terrible. They both laughed.
“Play it again,” her daughter said.
And she did. ❤️

Twenty-seven years of waiting. Five minutes to begin.

That's the heart of the Time Account in The Life Audit. Sometimes, the things we keep postponing are the very things that would bring us joy.

📖 The Life Audit: How to Measure What Matters—and Build What Outlives You.

Available on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/0hI5YNOH

💬 What have you been putting off until “someday”?


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10/22/2026

We celebrate people who retire wealthy. But how often do we ask what a successful life looks like beyond the money?

A comfortable retirement. Financial independence. The freedom to make choices without worrying about every expense.

These are meaningful achievements, and they deserve recognition.

But financial success is only one part of a much bigger picture.

Our podcast conversation uses a fictional retiree to explore an interesting question:

Can someone achieve every financial goal and still discover that other areas of life need attention?

After more than 30 years in finance, I understand the value of financial security. It protects families, creates opportunities, and gives us choices.

But I've also learned that the numbers never tell the whole story.

What about the relationships we're nurturing? The time we're making for what matters? The values guiding our decisions? The impact we're having on others?

These are accounts worth examining, too.

And they're central to why I wrote The Life Audit.

Building wealth and building a meaningful life are not competing goals. The challenge is making sure we're giving both the attention they deserve.

Because success isn't only about what we've accumulated. It's also about what we've built along the way.

📖 The Life Audit: How to Measure What Matters—and Build What Outlives You.

Available on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/0hI5YNOH

💬 Beyond financial security, what else would you include in your personal definition of success?

10/20/2026

She walked into the interview with little experience and a résumé that didn't tell the whole story.

Years later, she returned to thank the woman who saw beyond it.

Back then, she was looking for her first real opportunity. She had the determination to succeed but needed someone willing to give her a chance.

And one woman believed in her.

She saw potential where others saw inexperience. She opened a door that had remained closed, never imagining how much that single decision would change the young woman's life.

Years passed.

Careers progressed. Lives changed. That small moment became a distant memory.

Until one evening, at a leadership awards ceremony, the younger woman approached her.

“You probably don't remember me.”

Then came the words she wasn't expecting.

“You gave me my first chance. You changed my life.”

Imagine hearing that.

A decision made years earlier had quietly shaped someone else's future.

We often measure success by titles, recognition, and milestones. Those achievements matter. But they don't tell the whole story.

What about the confidence we helped someone find? The doors we opened? The lives that moved forward because someone believed in them?

In The Life Audit, I call this the Impact Account.

It's about recognizing that our influence often extends further than we realize. We may never see the full results of the opportunities we create for others.

And sometimes, years later, someone returns to remind us.

❤️ Some achievements hang on walls. Others live in people.

Perhaps that's one of the most meaningful ways to measure a life. Not only by what we've accomplished, but by what became possible for others because we were there.

📖 The Life Audit: How to Measure What Matters—and Build What Outlives You.

Available now on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/0hI5YNOH

💬 Who believed in you before you had the experience or confidence to believe fully in yourself? Have you ever told them what it meant to you?

10/19/2026

Your business and your personal spending are sharing one card. That's costing you.

Every mixed transaction is one you'll have to sort out later: at tax time, with your accountant, or the day someone asks for your numbers.

The Startup Money Separator fixes it in about 10 minutes.

Enter each transaction once. It tells you whether it was a business expense, a personal expense, or something the business owes you. Then it shows your real income, expenses, and profit by month.

What's inside:
→ A Dashboard with monthly profit
→ An Owner Tracker: what the business owes you
→ Missing-receipt flags
→ 30 categories matched to Schedule C lines

Built by a finance expert with 30+ years of experience.
Works in Excel and Google Sheets.

Link in bio.

10/15/2026

You know that moment when you open a book for a little light reading… and suddenly you're taking notes about your own life? 😂📖

That's the thing about The Life Audit.

It doesn't ask you to throw away everything you've built. It invites you to look at it a little more closely.

Your relationships. Your values. Your time. Your impact. The story you're creating.

Sometimes one chapter is enough to start a conversation you didn't realize you needed.

Have you ever read a book that made you put it down just to think?

📖 The Life Audit - How to Measure What Matters and Build What Outlives You
by Remi Ogidan —

Available Now On Amazon

LINK IN BIO.


10/13/2026

You check your emails.
Your calendar.
Your bank balance.

But when was the last time you checked in with yourself?
Not about your deadlines or your next big goal.
About the relationships that need your presence.
The values guiding your decisions.
The time you may never get back.
And whether the life you're building still reflects what matters most to you.

We can become so good at managing our responsibilities that we forget to examine the life we're living.

And sometimes, the things that need our attention most don't send reminders.

📖 The Life Audit is an invitation to look beyond the usual measures of success and ask questions worth answering while you still have choices.

You don't have to wait until something goes wrong to make something right.

Available now on Amazon.
https://a.co/d/0hI5YNOH

We know when a business is losing money.But do we recognize when our lives are losing something valuable?In finance, we ...
10/10/2026

We know when a business is losing money.

But do we recognize when our lives are losing something valuable?

In finance, we have systems for measuring performance, identifying risks, and detecting problems before they become expensive.

We examine revenue, profitability, cash flow, assets, and liabilities.

We ask difficult questions when the numbers don't add up.

Yet some of the most consequential imbalances in our lives never appear on a financial statement.

A thriving career can coexist with neglected relationships.

A growing business can demand more of our time than we ever intended to give.

We can speak confidently about our values while making daily decisions that quietly contradict them.

And we can accumulate impressive achievements without ever examining the story those achievements are helping us write.

The absence of a financial loss does not mean nothing valuable is being lost.

That realization became central to The Life Audit.

I wanted to explore what might happen if we examined our lives with some of the same discipline we bring to financial decisions.

Not to reduce life to numbers. Some of its greatest assets cannot be quantified.

But to ask better questions.

In the book, I introduce five accounts:

The Relationship Account: Are we nurturing the relationships that matter, or simply assuming they will always be there?

The Values Account: Do our principles still guide us when honoring them becomes inconvenient?

The Impact Account: Beyond what we accomplish, who benefits from what we are building?

The Time Account: What continues to receive our time without earning its place in our lives?

The Story Account: What are our repeated choices revealing about the life we are creating?

These are not accounts we can reconcile at the end of a financial year.

Some balances take years to build. Some withdrawals are difficult to reverse.

And some of the most valuable deposits we make may not reveal their returns until much later.

The purpose of an audit is not simply to identify what went wrong. It is to understand where we stand while we still have choices about what comes next.

That is the thinking behind The Life Audit: How to Measure What Matters—and Build What Outlives You.

And I believe it is as relevant to leadership as it is to personal life.

A question for my network:

Which is harder to recognize in the middle of building a successful career or business—the value we are creating, or the value we may be sacrificing along the way?

📖 The Life Audit is available on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/0hI5YNOH

10/06/2026

There is something different about seeing your own book through a reader’s eyes. ❤️

I knew what I hoped The Life Audit would say when I wrote it.

But once a book leaves your hands, it belongs partly to the people who read it, to what they recognize in its pages, what makes them stop, what challenges them, and sometimes what they see differently afterward.

These reviews meant a great deal to me.

One reader described the book as a reminder that “as long as we have breath,” there is still an opportunity to review our choices and change what remains possible.

Another picked it up simply to peruse it and told me they couldn't put it down. What stayed with them was the book's honesty and the idea that some of the deposits we make into life's accounts may not reveal their value until much later.

That last observation particularly touched me because it gets to the heart of why I wrote this book.

Not everything that matters produces an immediate return.

Some deposits are made quietly, in relationships, values, time, impact and the stories we are creating through ordinary days.

We may only understand their true value years later.

To everyone reading, reviewing, recommending, underlining, reflecting and occasionally disagreeing 😊—thank you.

You are giving this book a life beyond the one I could give it alone.

📖 The Life Audit: How to Measure What Matters - and Build What Outlives You
Remi Ogidan

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