I received a lot of positive feedback on my recent post, “6 Key Pieces of Financial Advice for Your Young Adult Child,” so this article expands on that topic. One of my readers said it would be helpful if I would discuss what her adult daughter should focus on, financially, as she progresses through her […]
You’ve finally lost that extra weight you’ve been carrying around for years, or even decades. What a great accomplishment! You feel much better, fit into your clothes more easily, and look fantastic. So you are now skinny. But are you also fit? I know, I can be a pain in the ass. Whatever you do […]
I was driving down the freeway the other day and I happened to notice a large flatbed truck carrying dozens of cages filled with live turkeys. The turkeys were stuffed in small cages with barely any room to move. I might be “projecting,” but they didn’t look very happy. I felt really bad for them. […]
Hollywood actors and actresses generally aren’t the most brilliant people in our society, and as such, they rarely make any meaningful observations. Watch an interview with Tom Cruise, or any episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” and you’ll see what I mean. That’s why I was so shocked when I heard this profound insight […]
How Do You Define Investment Success?
It happens to me all the time and I find it quite amusing. I’ll meet someone new at a cocktail party, they find out that I am a finance professional, and, invariably, they try to impress me with their stock picking prowess. It usually goes something like this: “Yeah, I bought an oil sands stock […]
What NOT to Do When You Are Stressed Out
I was watching a TV program last night and the main character had an extremely stressful job. His way of coping was to cheat on his wife with another woman. What struck me was that rather than relieving his stress, as he had hoped, it instead just ending up adding a tremendous amount of stress […]
Replace Improbable Negative Thoughts With Realistic Positive Thoughts
I came to the realization recently that the negative thoughts we so often entertain are usually extremely unlikely and improbable, and for this reason should be even easier to cast aside and replace with positive thinking. Our breeder had been emailing us weekly videos every Tuesday of the newborn puppies we were going to choose […]
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