Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web 5 Ways to Keep Your Friendships Strong—Even When Life Is Hectic Paths to deeper friendship: Intention, Consistency, Vulnerability, Novelty, Praise. How It All Works (A Few Short Stories) We discover new falsehoods in old facts too often to remain so absolute about what we “know” to be

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Examining the History of the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide Shows Stagnating Progress on Closing These Disparities We have made a lot of progress, but the gap is still very wide and progress has slowed. In Defense of the Unoptimized Life   Stop with all the productivity hacking

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web 7 Unexpected Tips We Learned From Relationship Therapists This Year for Boosting Connection and Intimacy Go to bed angry… and other unexpected tips for deepening your love relationships. Why Is It So Hard to Change?   How do I overcome the resistance and do the thing??? Here’s

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How to Create Luck Because every success can be traced, at least partially, to luck. What the Culture Wars Get Wrong   What if the narratives we are fed aren’t true? How would we know… Justifying Optimism   Optimists are crazy, just look at the world. Yet,

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Inflation is in all the headlines these days and you’ve heard me say that if I had a choice between inflation and recession, I would choose recession every day and twice on Sunday. I am a retirement income planner. Inflation is the dominant risk to our retirement incomes. Equities are the best available tools to

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This blog is the fourth of a 10-part series which covers everything you need to know to get started on your path to financial freedom: 1. The First Step in Any Financial Plan is NOT What You Think. We Start by Knowing What is Worth Seeking. 2. Developing Your Vision of a Perfect Life 3. Adopt a Savings

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web What Makes Life Meaningful?   Which country shares your values? Turns out, I don’t align with any country on the list. My list starts with Family, Health, Friends… Sunday Firesides: Everyone’s Just Trying to Make It in the World   Everyone deserves a little grace… especially when

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Pain is Part of the Process   It has been too long since my friend Bob has written a piece… and he has returned with a doozie! History Is In the Making   The dates we celebrate and teach skew our sense of what is important. “Reality”

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As I wrote this in the run-up to the holiday season, markets seemed to be on the mend from the bear that started January 3rd, the air was coming out of the inflation balloon, and talk of recession probabilities was the new crisis du jour (it ALWAYS has to be something). The biggest surprise to

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