Archive for the ‘Rule #4: Adjust Your Expectations’ Category

Five Bucks Before Five Billion

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

One Hundred Billion Dollars just rolls off the tongue. With the pending IPO of Facebook, people throw out millions and billions like its no big deal. We read and hear about it in entrepreneurial magazines, in the elevator, in the movies and of course when we hear politicians refer to the public debt of our [...]

The 2012 Official Embrace the Chaos Crystal Ball Forecast

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Every major newspaper, magazine and TV show has them:  a What to Expect in 2012 article. I read this one this morning from Reuters.  It seems that financial gurus are having a tough time forecasting anything these days.  For some reason, I read, watched and observed these ‘experts’ and yes – I am stressed out [...]

New Rules for My 1st Grader

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

My 6-year-old daughter came into my basement office today and started goofing around while I was really focused on finishing something important. I just needed a few more minutes so to keep her occupied, I asked her to keep herself busy by writing whatever she wanted on the board behind my desk. After a few [...]

Matching Pajamas Are Not Important

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Over the last 12 months, Harry and Hanna have gone through plenty of turbulence, uncertainty and chaos at work.  My wife and I hadn’t seen them in a while since Harry moved away for his job so sitting down to pizza on a recent Friday night was a treat for us. Uncertainty, unpredictability and chaos [...]

Do we really need to Supersize kiddie Birthday parties?

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

Do we really need to spend a thousand dollars on renting a super slide for our backyard for a 6 year old’s birthday party? This summer, I’ve been to a lot of kids parties and older adult parties.  It used to be that the older you got, the more money you have, the less time [...]