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Memory making.
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We took our ten month old son to the first of six weekly “swim lessons” yesterday. Of course he won’t actually learn to swim over the course of those lessons, but that’s not actually the point. The point is expose him from a very early age to the way his body feels in water, such
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Getting messy while trying is infinitely better than not trying at all.
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Can you imagine how much more difficult driving a curvy back road would be if you had to keep your car inside two ruts, just big enough for your tires? It would be a nightmare. The slightest mis-steer would lead to overcorrection which would lead to you bouncing out of the ruts and easily spinning
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Don’t shy from the mess.
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Sometimes it’s easy to assume that the more tightly controlled and line-itemed your finances are, the better. But actually, we need to build in Room. Room allows us to be spontaneous. And spontaneity is an invaluable component of any relationship, our relationship with money not excluded. But without Room–without having gone through the discipline of
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Andrea Pirlo had this to say about Major League Soccer (the American professional soccer league) yesterday: “It’s a very hard league to play in. It’s very physical, there’s a lot of running. So there is a lot of physical work and to me, in my mind, too little play. What I’m talking about is actually
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I grew up in a very small town, and at the age of 7 I began selling the local newspaper to the businesses that surrounded the central courthouse. Many of my first financial lessons were learned in the 5 or 6 years I carried on this venture, but Generosity is probably the greatest. Like
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This is a term which I can only assume has entered the lexicon through the lobbying efforts of savvy real estate agents. Primarily targeted at couples under 40 with young children, the idea of a “forever home” is often a tactic aimed at getting the couple to buy a house way outside what would be
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Put the phone down. Use your imagination.