Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. This past week, my oldest two children and I spent some time looking at public domain photos of different points in American history for an art project. Some of them

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Joyce Lock on strengths and weaknesses I’ve become a big believer in the idea that you should work to make your strengths as strong as possible so that they

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Pumpkins Pumpkins are sitting on our front step. Our garden has more squash and similar vegetables than we know what to do with. Leaves are falling from the trees.

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Walt Whitman on living If you manage to do these things, you’ll live a very great life. This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing Why do we make the choices we make? If we’re trustworthy decision makers, why do we often second guess our choices? If

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. I spent a lot of time looking at photos of autumn to help my kids with an art project. Several of them deeply impressed me with their artistry and capture

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Epicetus on blame It’s easy to get angry at others. It’s much harder to look at ourselves for solutions. “When we are offended at any man’s fault, turn to

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Popurls Popurls basically takes the headlines from a bunch of other sites that aggregate links (like Metafilter and Reddit and Longreads) and presents them all on one page so

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Ninite I spent some significant time setting up a computer for someone this week. This tool made that task drastically easier by giving me a single installation package to

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Dave Ramsey on work and money Dave clues in on one of the key components of making money. “We learned early on that if we help enough people, the

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. This edition is going to be very quote-heavy. I spent some time this week working on a slide show project where photographs were paired with inspirational quotes. I found a

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. This past week, Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, likely due to health reasons. Jobs’ history, particulary with the creation of Apple and Pixar as an entrepreneur and the

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Randy Pausch on time management An awful lot of people have seen Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture,” but I actually found his talk on time management to be at least

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. This week will mostly feature pictures of highlights from our recent travels. 1. Mount Rainier The cloud-wreathed peak of the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states was stunning as

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Madeleine (1892) by Ramon Cassas The face of the woman in this painting has stuck in my mind all week. I kept wondering what her expression meant. Is she

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Bertie Forbes on failure and triumph If you try something you really want to achieve and you fail at it, what do you do next? “History has demonstrated that

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Hans Christian Andersen on what we need Just living isn’t enough. You need a little more. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Black Button This is a really interesting short film about a choice. Would you push the button? I wouldn’t. 2. Winston Churchill on remaining true Winston Churchill delivered this

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well. 1. Cooking with my youngest child Lately, when we’ve been working on making meals, our youngest son has insisted on being put in his high chair and pulled as close