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Posts from August 2016

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

I’ve learned that to decide comes from the Latin word decidere and it literally means to “cut off”.  I find that the older we get, the more we need to decide.  Which means we need to “cut off” ourselves from many more… read more

How I Survived a Year of Bullying

When I was in middle school, I was bullied. At the time, there wasn’t all this talk and publicity about bullying so I didn’t even know I was bullied until over a decade later. I mean, I wasn’t being physically assaulted so I didn’t… read more

Choice

The final event in the summer olympic games is the men’s marathon.  At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Greece, Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima found himself in the lead with a few runners behind him.  As the finish line veered closer and… read more

A Hard Lesson Learned

previously published in August 2004 I don’t know where you were, what you were doing or how you were doing things 10 years ago, but I do know that (at least for myself) I could have been wiser about my money.  Overall, I don’t consider myself… read more

Shortcuts, Trade-offs and the Kingdom

previously published in August 2004 Money makes the world go round. Or so they say. But I can actually believe that. Think about the millions of people dizzy and delirious from making money. New York investment bankers are working easily over 100 hours per… read more

Love Without Force

We were at Barnes & Noble, and Matthew wanted to read Captain Underpants yet again.  I grimaced at the cartoon drawing of the smirking baby holding a toilet plunger.  “Matthew, what about this instead?  Oh look, it’s a mystery… read more