The average person in a rich country, like the U.S., consumes environmentally speaking, 13x as much as a person in a poor nation. At the same time, we throw away enough garbage per year to circle the entire planet 12 times. Mind blown. These nauseating statistics are always at the top of my mind as …
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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 …
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“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 …
What Abby Wambach, Goals Based Investing, and You Have in Common Read More »
When I was 24, one of my best friends and I pooled our spare change and $1 bills and came up with roughly $88. It was almost enough money to buy two tickets (at $50 each) to a music festival that was 3 hours away by car. We each worked in the food service industry …
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