I have a simple LIFEies for you today. Save money for emergencies. A good rule of thumb is to have 6-8 months of living expenses set aside in liquid assets. Unfortunately: — 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings account. –21% of Americans don’t even have a savings account. –Across the board, a full 80% have less… Read more →
Let’s start with the obvious. For a happy life, read LIFEies every Monday. Second, buy The Fantastic Life and incorporate the rules into your life. I have to include a plug every now and then. 🙂 I love tracking the Harvard Study of Adult Development. Since 1983, Harvard has tracked the lives of more than 700 men. The results give… Read more →
I thought the below WSJ article on questions we want to ask our parents was thoughtful. Why not, RIGHT NOW, ask any and all questions of our parents we might have? I have lost both my parents, so I sent this to my kids and said—now is the time, ask away. If you are good with your parents, congratulations. Now how… Read more →
I look for and find mentors everywhere I go. Some are people I speak with regularly, have known for decades, and get to learn from all the time (Thank you Bill Lee, and Jim Watkins). I also learn from people I have never met. I am constantly trying to get better. I view these people as personal mentors as well. … Read more →
It is May, and wow, what a crazy first five months of the year. I have been spending a lot of time thinking about how I am going to make 2020, not the year of COVID-19 but MY year. A great year for me and my family. We got to spend much of this year with our kids (and a spouse). … Read more →
There are some areas of my life where I have tremendous self control — like waking up to hike every morning at 4:00 am or earlier (for over 25 years). But then there are other areas where I fail completely, like passing up a cookie (or five). Self-control is your ability to resolve conflicts between your short-term desires and your long-term… Read more →
After my Dad passed in late 2018, I wrote a couple LIFEies on death (you can read them here and here). My longtime friend Joe Blackbourn sent me the below Yom Kippur sermon from Rabbi Steve Leder and I thought I would share it with our community. I think the whole sermon is worth reading but if I had to sum… Read more →
I get asked quite a bit if I have any mentors. I do — lots of them. My first and most important mentor was my dad (read my LIFEies on my dad here), but I also found mentors in our Founder, Bill Lee (read my LIFEies on Bill Lee here), my coach of 27 years, Dan Sullivan, and many others. Today,… Read more →
Since I was a junior in High School, I have not settled…for anything. Not everything has gone my way, of course, but I have never lost because I didn’t give my all. I now understand this is not normal. Everyone wants to have good things happen to them, but most are not willing to pay the steep price to get… Read more →
Below is a great exercise in time and gaining clarity on what is important in you life (FL Rule #2). Take a moment to break down the time you have left in your life and then compare it to what you still want to do and who you want to do it with….WOW! This was an eye-opening exercise for me at… Read more →