Appreciating Your Assets

I only saw the last 35-minutes of the 2008 (professional American football) “Super Bowl”. As it turns out, that’s where most memorable action and drama took place. I haven’t really followed or cared about football since I played, started, and “lettered” as a Defensive End/Outside Linebacker in high school. Football was only one of several sports I played. My favorite sports at the time were probably a toss-up between basketball, track, and waterpolo. I haven’t kept up or even heard of some of the current professional teams now playing (football), let alone any of the players. But one football player made a very positive and lasting impression – and he wasn’t even in the game! Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone has a “mission” – whether they know it or not.

Everyone has a “life affirming mission” – to “spread light” in their own way. Read the rest of this entry »

We live in a “throw away” culture – that wastes much of its precious resources – including people and their potential to contribute. As a society, we are HUGE “consumers”. We not only USE far more energy and manufactured/material goods, let alone food, than we “need” (especially in proportion to our population) but we also produce more unnecessary “waste” than EVER before! Read the rest of this entry »

Most Americans would probably be better off trading in their 401(k)s and other employer-sponsored retirement plans for a Self-Directed Retirement Plan (SDRP) – that allowed them to (roll-over existing contributions in order to) buy and hold real estate (in the name of the plan). Read the rest of this entry »