Category: Life

Three Legged Stool of Retirement Coda – The fallacy of 70%

Financial experts advise having 70% of your working income for retirement. It’s just not enough.

The Three Legged Stool of Retirement

Social Security isn’t enough, 401K isn’t enough, Pension isn’t enough, but together… Now we have something!

How Deep Fried Twinkies Can Destroy Dreams

Deep Fried Twinkies at Walmart are a sign of how corporations lose sight of the big picture.

Identifying the Seasons of the PIC

My wife likes to use the term seasons, meaning a ‘season of life’ or a easily defined period in your life.    There is the season of child rearing, the season of youth, the season of […]

Life Traps: The too good to be true side business

Many dream of the benefits of their own successful business. Some options really are too good to be true!

Life Traps: Car Financing

The entire system of car financing is designed to squeeze every last penny out of you. The best solution is to not finance at all!

Consulting

Consulting is the great fallback position. Generally the way people get involved in consulting work has to do with an unwanted or unexpected excess of time.   Sometimes that time came in a positive way such […]

PIC your pay policy.

The sad part about any data out of a politically focused organization is that even when the data is really good, you still have to double check all of it for determining if it’s skewed.   […]