Improve, or Invent, Until . . .

Work is changing. Life is changing. Much of what worked before simply won’t anymore. Whether you know it or not, you’re playing two games. The first is the Outer Game – this is what you do, your profession, your career, your job. The other is the Inner Game. The Inner Game is what will (really) make…

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat – Napoleon Hill At the risk of sounding like a ranting Dennis Green, things are what we say they are, and when we say they are things that serve us, that’s what they become. When confronted with a set-back, challenge, problem, issue, or…

So. Here I am, in the final month of the first quarter of 2024, wondering what to do with my (“un-invested”) retirement savings. (In a nutshell: believing the markets to be over-valued in 2020, I got out and went to cash… ) The S&P 500 and NASDAQ are at all-time highs, recession is (supposedly) nowhere…

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…

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland No, not that sort of “scoring!” I mean do you know when you’ve accomplished something important? Something of value, to you? Without goals, you won’t know.

You can tell me what you want, what you dream about, what your “Ideal Life” would be, what you want to start or stop, . . . , but all that matters is what you do. At the end of the day: behavior always wins. All that – really – matters is action. Of course, emotions beget…