The Paradox of Money You spend 40 hours earning your paycheck. You get paid and spend it in 40 minutes. It’s not entirely your fault. Companies smarter than us spend millions of dollars marketing to us. …

The cliche statement is it takes 21 days to build or break a habit. As someone that has done many 21 day cycles, this is bull shit. James Clear says it doesn’t matter if it’s 21 days or 30. What does matter is the rate at which you do the…

January 24th entry from Leo Tolstoy In today’s entry of A Calendar of Wisdom, by Leo Tolstoy, is the following: “Nobody knows where the human race is going. The highest wisdom, then, is to know where YOU should go: toward perfection.” Yes, perfection does not exist. But it’s the idea…

Imagine being a Republican, living in Texas. You support guns and low taxes. You love your farm. But you voted for President Biden in the last election. Your property has vote for Biden signs on it. Well this is exactly what Ryan Holiday did. He voted for Biden as a…

This is the first year I actually gave a shit about the number. For some reason 35 opened my eyes. This might very well be the halfway point for me, for many of us. I am getting older. I feel it in my body, I see it in how I…

In the autobiography of President Ronald Reagan, “An American Life” Reagan had the following line, “by 1960 I realized that the real enemy wasn’t big business, it was big government.” Whether you care to read a quote on government or from President Reagan, our country is divided because of “big…

I love education. However, when we sit and think about what we learned from kindergarten through high school, most of it is useless. Maybe I’m just talking on my own behalf. Outside of reading, writing, typing, math and a language other than English, there is almost nothing I remember of…

We’ve been there. The endless hours applying to jobs. After a while we forget about the jobs we applied for. We even apply for jobs we don’t want. This happens because our filters fade over time. With discouragement comes desperation. Then we get particular. Much more when we feel hopeless. …

Each night I read my daughter “A Halloween Scare in Connecticut”, a book purchased in a local book shop. The book is beautifully written and illustrated. Well, here a kid is scared of monsters. But he’s just curious enough to go find them. When he did, they were just having…