In 1995, a New Zealand one-hit-wonder musical group called OMC released their chart-topping song How Bizarre. When you think about everything going on in the world today … “bizarre” seems to be an apt description. Here’s a verse you might almost believe had prophetic hidden meaning when written over a quarter-century ago … “Ringmaster steps out and …
In Gary Keller’s life-changing book, The One Thing, he brings into focus the importance of focusing on “the one thing.” Hence the catchy title. Although similar to Curly’s advice in City Slickers, Keller’s advice is a little more practical. Keller says “the one thing” is whatever you can do that makes everything else you need to do either easier or unnecessary. …
Judging by the volume of commentary from a parade of pundits on every major financial news outlet … .. you’d think stocks are the undisputed champ for wealth building. Meanwhile, real assets … things like real estate and gold … are largely ignored as boring relics for the unsophisticated and fearful. Then a pesky thing …
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Perhaps more than any subset of American society, real estate investors have the strongest tie to the very first Thanksgiving. Depending on where and how you learned early American history, you may have only a cursory awareness of the Plymouth Plantation “experiment.” That’s where America’s Thanksgiving tradition came from. But the first Thanksgiving set the table …
As of this writing, the U.S. presidential election has yet to be formally certified. Both sides are claiming victory. There’s obviously a lot of disagreement. As investors trying to make long-term strategic decisions, the situation is challenging. After all, policy decisions affect the economic landscape we’re navigating. So knowing who has their hands on the levers is …
Politicians and bureaucrats are duking it out in the wake of the most controversial election since Bush v Gore in 2000 … … which was almost as bad as the election of 1876. Yes, as disconcerting as all this current controversy is, this isn’t the first time Americans have anguished through a contested election. And if you’re outraged at the arguably …
As of this writing, we’re not sure how the U.S. election turns out. But we’re guessing the cheering, fearing, wailing, and gnashing of teeth will go on for quite a while. But although there’s a LOT of clues in the news, investment strategy, or personal development philosophy topics we could yammer about … … we …
There’s a lot of doom, gloom, and uncertainty out there. MANY of the super-smart people we hang out with are preparing for a really ROCKY road ahead. Of course, we’re big fans of being prepared. As we often say … “Better to be prepared and not have a crisis, than to have a crisis and not …
We’re nearing the end of a marathon of back-to-back-to-back conferences. The world is different … but life goes on … both online and now back on the road. When we started this year at our Create Your Future™ goal setting workshop, little did we know how BIZARRE and DISCONCERTING 2020 would become. Yet here we are … still …
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As political pundits debate debating, financial pundits are watching the 3D tennis match between President Trump, Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Powell. As discussed last time, this trio has been volleying stimulus demands back and forth for quite a while … even though the last round of stimulus ran out. Despite all this political pandemic pandering … so far, it’s not …
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