Passive Income & Practicing What I Preach

You may have seen that during the 2020 slowdown in business activity I turned to old skill sets and created a t-shirt business.  Four, if you’re counting stores, product themes, or work I did for clients running other businesses.  Is that a departure from my financial services and education content?  Not by any stretch of…… Continue reading Passive Income & Practicing What I Preach

In Uncle Sam We Trust

Slowly but Certainly, Social Security Is Failing. I see this routinely as I assist clients in preparing for retirement and other financial goals.  This statement is directly from the Social Security Administration’s web page that assists people with estimating their expected benefits at retirement: “The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2034, the…… Continue reading In Uncle Sam We Trust

The Game You Write Your Own Rules For…

Empowered to do what you’d like to do and to be who you’d like to be.  All too often these days people, organizations, and ‘authorities’ are making all too many decisions ‘for your own good’.  If you’d like to retain or recover more of the ability to make your decisions based on your own values,…… Continue reading The Game You Write Your Own Rules For…

Simple, But Easy?

Set your sights on the far horizon, you're going places!

I can relate to hesitation about a belief in financial success. When I was younger I chose two careers that interested me greatly, but didn’t pay particularly well; music and photography. I enjoyed them both, and I was good enough at each to scratch a living from them, but financial success or excess was not…… Continue reading Simple, But Easy?