I am currently working through an excellent biography of Warren Buffet: “The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life,” by Alice Schroeder. This book is long–over 800 pages–yet is well-written and…
Category: Money & Investing
Day 292: A Case for Financial Responsibility
Since the spring of 2015, I have been obsessed with managing our finances. The ultimate objective is probably “Financial Freedom,” which is commonly defined as earning enough passive income to live off…
Day 261: “Liar’s Poker,” or Michael Lewis’ sojourn into Wall Street hell
I just finished reading Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. If you have seen any of the following movies–The Big Short, The Blind Side, or Moneyball— well,…
Day 245: Stop Effort-ing, and Start Enjoying
Well, folks, we’ve about come to the moment of truth. Yes, I’m talking about Tax Day, which is right around the corner… Hopefully you, as I do, look forward to this with…
Day 238: My Money Confession
First, a relevant Abraham-Hicks quote: The reason you have not already gotten what you desire is because you are holding yourself in a vibrational holding pattern that does not match the vibration…
Day 233: How to Make a Subject Feel Good?
Abraham-Hicks is an awesome Law of Attraction teacher. I quote or refer to them often. One idea that I have continually heard from Abraham-Hicks has to do with the power of focusing…
Day 222: Your Worth is Immeasurable
I’ve sometimes had a rocky relationship with numbers. In school I was terrified of getting bad grades, which are basically numbers (after all, an “A” represents 100%, “B” represents 90%, and so…
Day 212: Mustard seed, anyone?
According to what I’ve been told, the Good Book (Yeah, you know the one I’m talking about… not Harry Potter!) says that “If you but have the faith of a mustard seed,…
Day 181: Sometimes I take a long time to think things through
I don’t know how you are, but sometimes I take a long time to think things through. Especially when it comes to daily situations, and business situations or important situations involving other…
Day 166: A Vision Worth Trusting
So I just heard the news that Jack Bogle has passed. If you didn’t know, Jack Bogle was the man who started Vanguard, the investment company that popularized the index fund, of…