Standing in an aisle of food when you’re hungry is a high intensity lesson in delayed gratification. Your stomach is crying out for food. You’re staring down a box of your favorite cookies. You’ve got your credit card in your wallet, ready to be swiped so that you may feast upon the sugary goodness. But wait. You’ve still got the…
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On Loss, Money, And Legacy
It’s 10:00 in the evening and I am thinking about my first bank account. I don’t remember opening it, but I remember clearly how I funded it. My grandfather made me a deal: he would match each quarter I saved with a dollar and all of our combined money would go into the bank account. If I saved seven quarters,…
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What Abby Wambach, Goals Based Investing, and You Have in Common
“A huge pill I needed to swallow early on was that, though I achieved high levels of success and got the same award as Peyton Manning and Kobe Bryant, standing on the same stage, the three of us walked into very different retirements. Their hustling days were over, and mine basically were just starting, because I had to re-create myself. A…
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6 Investing Terms Defined in Language You Actually Understand
Ask Kara: My Freelance Income is Inconsistent. How Can I Make Money Freelancing?
Ah, to be a new freelancer, full of grit and joy to be working for themselves, but struggling to figure out how to make money freelancing. A tale as old as time! A lot of people start freelancing because they have a passion and want to spend more time doing that thing. Weaving, writing, cooking- whatever it is, they want…
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