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Some Things Can Only Be Learned on the Open Sea

The safety of the shoreline is alluring. Everything there feels much calmer than the open sea. While the wind may blow against your face when your toes are in the sand, your stomach doesn’t do as many flips when your feet are planted firmly on the ground. But if you stay in the harbor, you’ll [...]

February 2, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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You Are an Appreciating Asset

A lot of financial pros will tell you that the way to make sure you don’t accumulate a lot of bad debt that takes forever to pay off (charging you a bucketload of interest in the process), is to only borrow money for appreciating assets. Take out a loan to buy a house (which will [...]

February 1, 2012 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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How to Decide

One of the biggest goals I have as a parent is to teach my daughter how to make decisions. Helping her understand right from wrong, good choices from bad ones, and learning about tradeoffs and opportunities, will enable her to know what to do when faced with peer pressure, opportunities to grow, and what to [...]

January 31, 2012 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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Three Things Every Entrepreneur Needs

Having co-founded two companies and helped nonprofits get off the ground, entrepreneurship has become a default niche of mine, especially the social kind. I’ve also had countless conversations and consultations with aspiring entrepreneurs and over my brief career have seen a lot. When I speak in business classes to university students, they usually like to [...]

January 30, 2012 5 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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The Church is Scared

On Sundays, when I write, I do so at length on some topic of religion, Christianity, Jesus stuff, or faith. Beware. For some people, church is scary. Many a sitcom (and RomCom) has used a one liner to demonstrate this. Past behavior, childhood memories, and current sleeping patterns are used to get a laugh when [...]

January 29, 2012 14 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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