Settlements

 

All 50 states and US territories agreed to a $7.4B settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners yesterday over the company's role in the opioid crisis. If approved, the payout will resolve thousands of outstanding lawsuits but still allow future litigation. It is the largest settlement of its kind surrounding the decades long epidemic. 

Purdue released OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller, in the 1990s. The drug has since been blamed for fueling the opioid epidemic, resulting in over 645,000 US deaths since 1999. Purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019 to settle lawsuits accusing it of downplaying the drug's addictive nature.

On another front, the $2.6 Billion Dollar BC/BS Settlement For Medical Centers, Doctors and Hospitals Is Closing on July 29. It has already been approved.

It easy to discover what you're owed and file with no risk, no hassle, and no legal fees.

Do something that grows the business or grows you.

 

1. Review your to-do list and highlight what’s truly mission-critical. If it doesn’t move the business forward, it’s stealing your time.

2. Identify one task you’re doing just to feel productive. Cut it and replace it with something that grows the business or grows you.

3. Ask yourself where your current strategy is taking you in the next 6 to 12 months. If you don’t like the destination, change the route.

4. Replace one low-impact task this week with 30 minutes of high-level thinking. Block it, protect it, and use it to realign.
   

Slowing down to assess direction is a power move, not a weakness.

 

1. The fastest path to burnout is working hard without stopping to ask why. If the map is wrong, the journey doesn’t matter.

2. More effort won’t fix a broken foundation. Until the structure is solid, everything you build will keep collapsing.

3. Slowing down to assess direction is a power move, not a weakness. The best decisions I’ve made came from quiet strategy, not chaotic hustle.

4. The people who win are not the busiest, they’re the most intentional. They don’t chase everything—they pick their shot and go all in.

Clarity comes from action.

 

Audit your information diet.

1. Are you learning from winners… or professional talkers?

2. Stop asking “What software should I use?”
   Start asking “What outcome do I want, and who do I need to become to get it?”

3. Revisit your top 3 goals this quarter.
   Are your daily actions aligned with them?

4. Identify one area where you’ve been indecisive.
   Make a move this week. Clarity comes from action.

Results come from direction.

 

1. Just because you’re busy doesn’t mean you’re building something worth keeping. Movement without intention is just a distraction in disguise.

2. The wrong strategy executed perfectly still leads to failure. Doing the wrong thing faster doesn’t make it right.

3. Hustle culture glorifies motion, but results come from direction. The people who win aren’t the loudest—they’re the clearest.

4. If your path isn’t aligned with your vision, no amount of work will save you. You’ll just end up resenting the very thing you built.

Feel productive!

 

1. Look at your last 30 days of work. Are those actions tied to sales or just keeping busy?

2. Ask a trusted advisor or mentor to give you unfiltered feedback on what they see.

3. Cut one thing you’ve been doing just to “feel productive.”

Better decisions.

 

1. The longer you delay asking for help, the longer you stay broke.

2. Trying harder doesn’t fix a broken machine. It just burns you out.

3. If the model is off, no amount of motivation will save it.

4. Most businesses don’t need more hustle. They need better decisions.