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3.16.12 Giving Had a Beginning

     There’s a difference between learning to give and desiring to give. Giving doesn’t happen overnight, nor does it happen naturally. When we are born, we have a default setting to possess things rather than to give.  As toddlers didn’t we all assume that whatever was in our possession was ours? Anyone who dared to […]

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2.1.12 Inheritances vs “Living Giving”

     If you had the power to change your family’s financial tree, would you do it?  I think you can, and I will show how with one example.  Let me start with sobering statistics from Beating the Midas Curse by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb: “In families where new wealth has been created by the […]

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12.7.11 You Do What?

     A year ago my father purchased a foreign currency that is about to be revalued, meaning we had to find a free checking account at a bank that can exchange the currency—and quickly. I suggested a local bank I knew with free checking and a $1 minimum deposit, but when my father looked into transportation, […]