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Every Day Realities
As my dad put it, as of tomorrow, he’s going on 89. Today was his 88th birthday. I do like the way he looks ahead. And, I’m amazed at what he had to do to get here. Hard work has … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Bagpiper Don, books, consulting, entrepreneur, investing, jobs, photos, Savvy Caddy, speaking, vacation
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My Money And My Life – Reminiscence
It is a big task, and no one else can do it for me. As I’ve mentioned before, now that I have a modified mortgage and a clearer quantification of my finances, I intend to step through the Nine Step Program that … Continue reading
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Tagged 9 step, assets, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., early retirement, emotions, engineer, enough, financial independence, frugal, frugality, interest rates, investing, Joe Dominguez, liabilities, loan modification, MMAML, Money & Life, mortgage, mortgage modification, net worth, New Road Map, Nine Step Program, NRM, personal finance, portfolio, Simple Living, stocks, Vicki Robin, voluntary simplicity, YMOYL, Your Money or Your Life
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My Money And My Life
Clear one hurdle and a new adventure embarks. From what I can tell, I’ve managed to keep my house, get an impressively modified mortgage, and built my business to the point that I can pay at least all my regular … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., FI, financial independence, frugal, frugality, housing, investing, MMAML, mortgage, New Road Map, NRM, personal finance, Retirement, Simple Living, stocks, unemployment, wealth, YMOYL
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My Mortgage Modification Chronology
The short story: I get to keep my house, and here’s how it happened. This post will be far less literary than most, but also far more literal and hopefully useful. It is inspired by a celebratory event that I … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Dendreon, DNDN, HAMP, HARP, HCLE, housing, investing, mortgage, mortgage modification, New Road Map, Parkview Services
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Saying Yes To Startup Dreams
A friend called up with a new idea. It will probably only cost a bit of time and effort – and who knows where it will go? I’m honored to be included. New ideas are what we need, and they … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, GERN, HCLE, investing, Liza Loop, LTBH, MVIS, myHarto, personal finance, social media, stocks, vlogbrothers, vsauce, YouTube
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2014
An encouraging characteristic of good habits, rituals, and regular exercises is that their descriptions and rationales don’t change. Welcome to my semi-annual review of my stocks, and an introduction that hasn’t changed much so copy and paste helps me balance … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, frugality, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RGSE, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, stocks, wealth
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But Not Yet
As I begin typing, we are less than eight hours away from the Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer (north of the Equator), the farthest the planet gets away from the Sun, and maybe the beginning of much better times. … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, community, consulting, cryptocurrency, debt, entrepreneur, frugality, housing, Intelligent Optimist, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, seed funding, stocks, writing, yes magazine
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Social Media Really
Why? Why Like, Follow, Plus, Connect, or Subscribe to someone? Why not? It’s free, isn’t it? It’s worthless, isn’t it? Skip the pleas from Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and WordPress and Blogger. They aren’t free, really. They aren’t worthless, … Continue reading
Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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Corporations Meet Owners MVIS 2014
People crave stories, poems, plays on words. Analysts crave data. Investors deal in both. Investors in startups have so little data to pick from that investing becomes speculating. When words are the main source of information, it is best to … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual investor, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, wealth
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