We, as humans, are social beings.  Community is important, social contact is important, person to person conversations are important.  It is a little funny how much we take these things for granted until, it is in the best interest of caring for others that we avoid...

I am convinced at Intentional Wealth Advisors we have by far the best clients and friends.  How do I know this?  Because I have spoken with so many of them during the market tumult recently.  Almost to a person, they have asked about me and how I am doing. I have...

As I write this the market has suffered one of the most severe and quickest drops in history.  Only a few months ago new records were being set on the upside. Now it appears that we have reversed course 180 degrees and are setting new records on the downside.  Why? ...

How do you see yourself?  Not like in the mirror; I mean your persona.  Who you are.  As much as possible I try to see myself in a positive light, a helper and a person who is empathetic.  Often, I forget who I am and drift through my day unaware of the influence I...

So, it is February and you have either crushed it in the last month sticking to your new resolutions or you are once again disappointed in your own will power to make the improvements you know you need to make.  Lest you think I am judging you; this is the primary...

I believe each of us are carrying around words in our very being that have been permanently placed there by some unknowing individual along our journey. The words are not likely supportive and may even be hurtful.  The positive words may also have an influence, but I...

When you think of the fifties, what comes to mind?  Poodle skirts?  Bobby socks?  How about the seventies?  Leisure suits?  Puka shell necklaces?  It seems like some decades have a remarkable or notable look or feel about them.  For sure the last “Roaring 20’s” did; I...

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi Unless you have been living as a hermit high upon a mountaintop you surely must have noticed the divisiveness in our country.  I’m afraid this is somewhat of a common theme for me, but I feel that...

Life certainly has gotten easier with technology.  In the last month, I have used my phone to book air travel from Traverse City, arrange for a hotel stay, make reservations for dinner and request a ride from a stranger while in Austin.  I managed all of this (and...

It seems each year when the first snow hits the ground, we are a little surprised.  Some of us may be horrified at the sight of snow covering the leaves that just blanketed the lawn only days before.  I must admit, of all the seasonal transitions fall into winter may...