The First wealth is health. – Emerson
Without your health you cannot serve.
If you cannot serve you cannot deliver value.
If you cannot deliver value you cannot earn rewards.
Thus to earn anything – money, friendship, reciprocation, anything – you must focus on, and continually attend to, your health.
Your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
Without health you can do nothing.
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled…
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. – Henry David Thoreau There’s a reason why the windshield is so much larger than the rear-view mirror. Ever think about why the rear-view mirror isn’t larger in a car? Probably not, because it’s just about the right size. We can learn a lot…
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius What’s true has been true for a long, long time – there’s really little I can add here.
“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.” – Earl Nightingale I written about this before and it’s no less true now. Despite my sometimes best-efforts to deny this truth, I know we are all connected. What we create is simultaneously completely our own and…
No one can lift a one-ton boulder. Anyone can lift a one-pound rock. But no one is going to bother to move 2,000 rocks, unless they have a goal of moving a ton of stone. That’s why we create big, seemingly unattainable, goals. Because the only way we’ll move 2,000 stones is with a big goals….
Everyone wants to be able to retire with financial security and peace-of-mind. Most people think they need a financial advisor to do so. In this (what turned out to be a long) post I will lay out the basic formula for retiring with enough, and how some types of financial advisors could leave us with…