Endless Potential Abound!!!

I can tell you that anyone who is going to be a part of, or already in my family, loves food and large family get-togethers.  For my parents it's a way of keeping our Jewish culture alive and well. As an atheist/agnostic, deist Jew, it's just the way things are. When my sister-in-law was first introduced as my brother's girlfriend, she was inundated with family events. She didn't handle it. I view that as a passive aggressive term for getting by, but embraced everything. I am the luckiest guy in the world because I look at her with the same love as I would a sister. And, I only have a biological brother. What a champion she is! Our family is so close to each other, and so large that I don't even bother explaining how I'm related to someone I just meet anymore. If I don't recognize someone, I just proclaim "welcome to the family."  It's the truth. We make excuses to get together. Why not? If I am in the area I'll stop by someone's hous...

On Monday afternoon I attended a funeral of a non-related family member.  There was so much I learned from this one funeral. Perhaps, it's because I have been to so many funerals of late and perhaps it was about all who gathered to remember this woman. As the lady who passed was a death-camp surviver, I know that there are increasingly few of these people alive and well to pass along the horrific tragedy's of the Holocaust. Seek counsel and advise from those with more life experience in all walks of life. A touching eulogy of his grandmother was given by my brother's best friend and the deceased grandson. He recalled all the times he visited her at her home in LA that she would make sure he had something to eat, no matter what! That theme was echoed through out a few of the eulogies. What probably most important to my brother and my friend is how his grandma introduced his parents to his wife-to-be. They both work at they same hospital?  Whichever religion you practi...

The unexpected is to be expected. Especially, in todays gadget filled world where apps of all kinds dominate imaginations and computers, yes computers, are becoming obsolete. You must focus on what is important to you. There will be plenty of distractions that get in your way.   Too many people think day trading on the stock market is a profession for anyone. After all almost all stocks went up in the past couple of years.  I might point out 2008 as a warning to these individuals. Do your research before investing; take an investment class, read company's financial, accounting and cash flow statements. If you don't understand something, is it really a good idea to throw your money at that company. That's gambling.  You can find plenty of free information on www.Investopedia.com.   The idea is like most things, do your homework before making any financial decisions. With relationships, I don't know many people who get this one wrong. Experience teaches you wha...

As I watch the successful people in my life, those with a wonderful family/financial balance, I find a common theme among them.  Whether they are Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Atheist or Agnostic, they all know how to make decisions in their lives. More importantly, once these decisions are made they stick with them. My father has been with the same law firm for more than 25 years. My uncle Jack has been with Lockheed Martin for as long as I can remember, and my closest friend is following in his father's footsteps as a commercial real estate mogul. Most articles and head hunters will urge you to jump from job to job. I plead with you to look in the mirror and don't just think about the money at a new job. Money comes because of hard work and stick-to-it of ness. Do what you love and stick with it. In Richard Branson's "Losing my Virginity" he says, "A business has to be involving: It has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instinc...