Do You Score?

I had a thought while listening to a wonderful song by Colin Hay: If endeavoring to believe that the World is a beautiful place, replete with amazing happenings both minor and major, where everything that happens is an opportunity – for learning and growth at least – is a fiction, then oh what a beautiful and worthy…

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein Success is an abstract, relative term. It’s a made-up thing, it doesn’t actually exist anywhere, like “time.” (You can show me a clock, but you can’t show me time . . . .) And it…

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on…

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…

“In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower The true magic of Ike’s words are that they describe who we become by planning. I consider planning a way of honoring our potential and effort. Sometimes, it is best to be spontaneous, to let things go…

I recently read a post on Johnny B. Truant’s blog that really hit home. So much so that I wanted to do two things: share it with my readers and 2) think on and write about each piece of his post. The post is “20 Truths About Life No One Wants To Believe” and the fourth one I…