Going to work from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM every weekday is a routine. Doing the same exact thing every single day for 20 years in a row is a rut. Eating breakfast daily is a discipline. Eating the same breakfast is a rut. It’s been a quarter century since I graduated high school. The…
About 12 years ago, I was walking around Macy’s and found a 4-slot Piggy Bank – Save, Invest, Donate, Spend. My son was a toddler so I bought it thinking it was a perfect time to start teaching him about different areas of money. Last week, I was reading Suze Orman’s book The Ultimate Retirement…
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments (from 1977 and 1990), Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than double the S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the…
Is equal always fair? Such an interesting question. I have two siblings. They’re 4 & 5 years younger than I am. At dinner time, when we were little, our mother would occasionally spoon feed us. She would have me sit in the middle, with my siblings on each side. She would start feeding from my…
Here are 5 simple tips to improve one’s writing, I found in my archives. Tip # 1 – Delete the word “that” You believe that I’m sleeping, but I’m not. Now, let’s try again without “that”. You believe I’m sleeping, but I’m not. Tip # 2 – Avoid words that end in “ing” The food…