My family was watching our Back To The Future DVD’s this week. Biff was the school bully who was trying to dominate those around him. Even after school, in the initial timeline, Biff bullied George McFly at work. Most people have bullies in their life although they may not recognize them. One bully, in the …
The stock market has dropped for the last two days. There will be adjustments there as the market reacts to the election results. Retirement accounts are taking a beating again. Before this drop, I had read they had lost over $3 trillion. That’s more than a lot of countries’ economies. In response to the old …
Many people think that cowardice is the opposite of bravery. I think it’s conformity. As we grow up, we are ‘highly encouraged’ to conform with the what your parents think is the norm. Peer pressure can make us comform as well since the penalty of nocomformance can be a social outcasting of sorts. This conformity …
In these scary, uncertain economic times filled with the specters of layoffs, unemployment and recession, remember that fear itself magnifies the bad things. Many people worry about the pressures on the family budget, how they will pay for college, and being the sandwich generation, how they will they care for their aging parents. Are these …
Retirement nowadays is not dictated by age, it’s dictacted by money. Some people will not be able to retire at 65, 68 or 70 because of money. Others, who have achieved lifestyle freedom, can ‘retire’ at any age, 25,45 or 55. The secret is to get your residual income set up to cover your lifestyle …