December 2018
12 articles published this month.
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
Final Countdown to Christmas: Only One More Day!
It’s Christmas Eve and you’re stressed. No wonder. You’ve been working double-time while attending to all your holiday obligations and trying to enjoy the festivities. And so it’s no wonder that you feel you…
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10 Quick Ways to Improve Yourself Every Single Day
It’s that time of year when most people start to work on “resolutions” for next year. But don’t wait until January 1 to put those resolutions into action. Significant, life-improving change takes a long time –…
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Learning, Practicing, and Understanding
Thursday, December 20, 2018 Delray Beach, FL.- What’s going to be on your list of New Year’s Resolutions for 2019? Do you want to become a masterful writer? Marketer? CEO? Whatever your goal is, know this…
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Principles of Wealth #23
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Delray Beach, FL.- Wall Street promotes the idea that investing in stocks and bonds is the sensible way to grow rich. But a strategy that focuses solely or even primarily on stocks…
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Notes From My Journal
Success in the Spotlight: It’s More Rock Than Roll
Sunday, December 16, 2018 Delray Beach, FL.- I was late arriving at Steve and Lori’s annual holiday party last weekend. I’d been working on the outline of a new book, and I wanted to finish it while I still…
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How Good Are Your Products? Why It Matters Even If Your Customers Can’t Tell
Thursday, December 13, 2018 Delray Beach, FL.- My family has a small interest in a Craft Beer Brewery owned by friends of ours. Because our interest is small and because they are friends, I do my best to limit…
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Got a Tag Line? When It Makes Sense to Have a Personal Brand
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Delray Beach, FL.- A colleague refers to himself in his publicity as “the world’s most ___-ed man.” Good idea or bad idea? Epithets have power when they are short and apt and…
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My No Brainer “System” for Knowing When to Buy a Stock
Sunday, December 9, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- Most of the stocks in my core investment portfolio – my Legacy Portfolio – are dividend-paying stocks. And since I don’t rely on cash from those dividends for…
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Notes From My Journal
Solo Fliers vs. Quotidian Pilots
Friday, December 7, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- In every business, the golden current of wealth and power flows to the rainmakers. This is not a factor of ideology. It is a biological fact of the organism…
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The Wide Reach of the Blame-and-Shame Industry… or, How to Stop Waiting for Deus-ex-Machina Solutions to Unfairness and Inequality, Part 2
Wednesday, December 5th Delray Beach, FL.- Aiden, a reader from South Africa, wrote recently, taking me to task for the essay I wrote about the very hot (in certain circles) topic of white male privilege…
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The Wide Reach of the Blame-and-Shame Industry… or, How to Stop Waiting for Deus-ex-Machina Solutions to Unfairness and Inequality, Part 1
Monday, December 3, 2018 Delray Beach,FL.- One of the first things a copywriter learns about selling diet products is that it is very important to say, at some early point in the sales message, “It’s not your…
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Intimations of Mortality
Saturday, December 1, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- My friend Alec sent this brief note to me this morning: “A light went out in our bathroom. I remember that I changed it 14 years ago. I showed my son how to…
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