For more than a decade, I have been encouraging my clients to think 200 years in the future and the difference they want their lives to...

1. We care more about you, your life, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and your money than anyone who doesn’t share your last name....

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal According to Pascal, a...

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Some of the best...

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift Vision is an art - not a science. It exercises different...

Photo by Randy Tarampi on Unsplash “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk – Diary You will not live...

Harry Chapin is one of my favorite performers – primarily because of his meaningful lyrics and the emotion he put behind every song and...

“He is the richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” Socrates Growing up, I always thought of wealth...

Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver A hammer is a...

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Antoine de...

Photo by Olya Kobruseva on Pexels.com We are in the midst of the “great pause”. Every one of us has been thrown into a new reality – a...

Market Recovery After Market Declines

Fidelity Charitable has posted a list of charities who are helping those who need help during the Corona Virus Pandemic – and there are...

May we who are merely inconvenienced, remember those whose lives are at stake. May we who have no risk factors, remember the most...

The current situation (economic and Corona Virus) make me think that it’s time to “keep your head while all about you are using theirs” –...

Henry Van Dyke said: “Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up to the stars; to...

I picked these questions up at a wonderful workshop I attended a few years ago and have found them very useful to think about each year....

In an earlier blog (https://www.purposefulfinancialplanning.com/blog-01/five-family-capitals) I introduced the Five Family Capitals:...

“To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has...