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What’s Wrong With A Little Bit of Venting?

Mental toughness expert Jason Selk puts emotional venting in the proper perspective in his recent Forbes article. His strategy for dealing with it can help us all be less of a burden not only to others, but – very importantly… Read More

Should Employers Stop Providing Medical Insurance?

Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, has a great follow-up to the Hobby Lobby case in National Review Online. I talked about this Supreme Court ruling last week, in the context of putting the government in its place… Read More

This Vet Finally Got the Help He Needed!

Here is your Monday Good News Roundup. Start your week feeling good about money, people, and the world around you. * These Lowe’s employees helped a vet when the VA didn’t. Veteran Michael Sulsona had been waiting on a new… Read More

First a Temp – Now, Majority Shareholder!

Do you need people in your firm who can work their way up to the top? Who are grateful for an opportunity to grow, and will make the best of it? Who don’t feel they deserve anything but a chance… Read More

What If You Were the Prime Inventor?

If you were the Prime Inventor of the Earth, would you invent life insurance? What if it hadn’t existed already. Would you go ahead and create it? Let’s think about that for a second. What exactly is life insurance? What… Read More

A Lesson In Optimism From Taylor Swift.

I am now in the third decade of my life insurance career. Considering all the years I spent growing up in my father’s brokerage, the sale of life insurance has been the focal point of most of my life. Needless… Read More

Who Should Pay For Your Birth Control?

Today is Hot Topic Tuesday. Let’s talk about the Supreme Court decision on the Hobby Lobby/Obamacare case. I have several interests in this case. As an insurance salesman, I have seen how consumers suffer when the government forces all insurance… Read More

Praise for American Exceptionalism

It’s easy for us Americans to get down ourselves and forget how great we really are. I know that as a life insurance salesman, if I lose track of the unique value I bring to the table, I feel lost.… Read More

How Life Insurance Secures Economic Growth

One would think that the purchase of one product or service could not have a dominant effect on the growth of the economy. But when you think about it, a few do. One of them is life insurance. The impact… Read More

America the Leader

In the financial services business, we often form service teams to help our clients. I like to think of these units as “ensemble casts of superstars” that deliver outstanding performances. The planner will make financial goalsetting seem dreamy. The investment… Read More