Month: February 2024
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Pardon the Interruption
My oldest son C.J. and I meet each Tuesday for dinner and coffee. We usually eat at our favorite place to get Peruvian chicken and then after dinner, head a few doors down to a coffee shop in the same plaza. It’s a special time each week to spend father and son time together, talk…
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Don’t yell at the gift giver!
I recently celebrated my 69th birthday. My wife surprised me with an amazing gift. She spent three months researching and consulting with friends of ours to find the right one. On Saturday morning I was upstairs when she shouted, “Your birthday present is here.” I thought Amazon had delivered a package only to come downstairs and…
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At What Cost?
When talking about the cost of something we usually think in terms of cash, currency. How much money will this item or service cost me? For most the financial resources we have access to in our banking and brokerage accounts are limited. We can’t afford to buy anything we want and must live on a…
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Goals or Objectives?
Goals, objectives, are they one in the same? I think there are some distinctions between the two. Objectives may have a goal component to them, but objectives are efforts or actions intended to attain or accomplish a purpose, while goals focus more on a certain result. For instance, a goal could be to lose 30…
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