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Archive My life journey to date included working for a Fortune 50 company in supply chain management for nearly 27 years. During that time, I worked for many different managers. I also had the good fortune to manage people myself – from a small local team with fewer than 10 individuals...
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According to some sources, the average person makes an incredible 35,000 choices per day. Optimistically, let’s assume we get 8 hours of sleep each night. This statistic suggests we make an average of nearly 2200 decisions each hour we’re awake! Whether or not we believe this figure, there is no...
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Creating and managing a personal budget is not high on anyone’s fun pastimes. If investing and saving are like throwing a party – exciting, filled with good times and hopefully positive outcomes, then budgeting is like the morning after clean-up. You know it must be done. You know you’re going...
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Perhaps you’re making progress against your plan. Maybe its even time to start considering what to do with all that free time in retirement? Let me introduce you to a particular obsession of mine…the world of smoking. I’m a long, long way from an expert in this world but I’ve...
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Writing down personal financial goals is an important step to take. A good plan requires a starting point and a place to go. However, things can get confusing once you move from planning to doing. Today we have many different options available for investing money in support of our financial...
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The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with writing “life is a journey, not a destination“. That seems about right, doesn’t it? The trials and tribulations of daily life can cause us to fixate on just getting through the tasks presented to us hour by hour. Appointments, meetings, minor...
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Thank you Marci. My mom did get a chance to read it to him, and I'm very grateful for that.