Life Lessons

continued from Part 2, which you can view here 4: Concerns about criticisms from the small-minded ensnared me. That is, in 2008 I got caught up the times in worrying about what other people thought about me. It’s not that all who are potentially critical of me are necessarily small-minded. It just so happens that…

continued from Part 1, which you can view here 2: I concerned myself too much with where finances were headed. Sometimes it’s possible to not necessarily worry about something but to merely focus on it and to haphazardly become negatively ensnared. It’s possible to become preoccupied with a matter that may be neutral then you…

At the end of each year, I spend time reflecting on my 11.5 months of making as many mistakes as possible. I look back upon the year that has passed and its miscalculations with a degree of glee. With a bit slight demented smile, I sit down, a pad of paper in hand, a good…

Jeopardy. “Alex, I’ll take Norwegian fjords for $100 please.” You’ve seen it plenty of times. Answers are given in the form of questions. Each answer doesn’t necessarily add up to a lot of money but in the end, if you answer a lot right you can walk away with some decent change. My wife Janie…

This has been a stellar week for me. My birthday was on Tuesday. I’m old but not that old. My son Jack thinks I’m old because I’m older than 21. I think I am younger than a lot of much younger people because I engage in playful activity a LOT. “When you stop playing you…