Why You Need a ‘Business Plan’ for Your Family
Your family may not be a business, but clearly it can be a good idea to foster it like good business owners do with their companies. By taking steps to…
Buying or Leasing a Business Vehicle: 5 Factors to Help You Decide
Many owners understand the basic differences between leasing and buying, but overlook the specific business factors that must be considered before pulling the trigger. The two common ways to finance…
Five Big Mistakes Executors Make—and How to Avoid Them
Being named the executor of a family member’s (or other loved ones') estate is, in many ways, an honor. The decision shows that the person saw you as a highly…
Six Really Dumb Things That Business Owners Do at Year-End
Around this time of year you start seeing lots of advice about what you should do for year-end planning. I’m going to take a slightly different tack. I’m going to…
How to Actively Embrace Happiness in You Life
In our third and final installment on happiness, we explore actions and steps you can easily take to bring more positivity into your life. Ultimately you need to act to…
Proven Paths to Happiness
Research has shown that basing your decisions on several imperatives will increase your happiness. In this second part in our series on happiness (see part one here), we present 5…
It’s Time to Get Serious About Your Happiness
There’s a great quote by Jean-Paul Sartre: “We are our choices.” When it comes to our happiness and our overall success in life, that’s truer than you might have realized.…
A Common Sense Guide to Heart Health
It’s been said that a man with health has a thousand dreams, while a man with no health has but one. Don’t you owe it to yourself, your family, your…
The Right and Wrong Way to Be a Risk-Averse Business Owner
As most of you know all too well, entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. It’s hard work. It’s stressful. The hours are long and there’s very little certainty…
Hot Take: US Stops Subsidizing Global Growth
When all we hear is the daily negativity of politics, we become jaded and start to believe that we are in the worst of times. However, when we dig deeper…
