Thinking today about all of the losses that occur as we age, retire, and slide into our final stages of life. Transitioning from childhood into adulthood is traumatic enough. We find new friends, but we lose old ones. We might go to college, in which case we leave still more school friends and family behind, […]
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Recently I was injured trying to upright a motorcycle. As the lift started, I heard an audible pop from my shoulder followed by some excruciating pain. Unable to lift my arm beyond horizontal, I called my doctor who ordered a shoulder MRI. The result? A torn rotator cuff muscle and a dislocated biceps tendon. After
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When I first started contemplating retirement, one of biggest concerns was – where would the money come from to support my semi-lavish lifestyle. After a bunch of research, I decided that my needs and worries would best be met by a competent financial advisor and wealth manager. My keen engineering mind decided to approach the
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When I first started contemplating retirement, fear of boredom was an overwhelming obstacle. What would I do if I wasn’t working 12 hours a day? In hindsight, that was a foolish concern, as stuff just crept in to fill my time almost immediately. The mundane tasks of day to day living were enough to keep
Once upon a time, in a blog far far away, there was a computer scientist. He wanted to be the best computer scientist that there ever was, so he attended classes, universities, and workshops to hone his skills. He joined various organizations and teams, working every day to become better at his craft. Every day,
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Why did we decide to take the Udacity Digital Marketing Program, an online course to enhance our digital marketing skill set? One would think that we’d already be skilled at marketing to even think about launching a blog with the intent to monetize. Our track record in monetization has proven to be less than stellar.
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How many things can a person juggle in their lives at the same time? Most of us have kids, a house, a significant other, one or more cars, one or more hobbies, a job, and a bunch of payments that support all of this. My thoughts have recently been trained on the fact that I
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We all have some basic needs in our lives, and I believe that these needs drive our actions. The most basic needs are food, water, and shelter, but I am more interested in the deep rooted needs that drive our day to day actions. Those needs include things like being accepted by others and having
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Philosophical thought for the day – Way back before I became a king of industry, I was a cook at the Hungry Horse in Johnstown NY, my home town. At the end of each night, I’d wander out to the bar and get an ice cold beer and watch some black guitar player named Marcus
There was this kid in my neighborhood named Frankie Stewart. He lived in a big old house with his extended family. Now when I say extended, I mean really really extended. There was his short Italian grandmother, his aunt, mother, father, older sister, and two younger sisters. I think that his granny did babysit for
