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Sometimes your struggles aren’t about you I came across this story a few years back. It’s one of those that makes its rounds on the internet and social media, but every time it resurfaces, I’ve always needed to hear it again. I’d like to share it with you. The author is unknown, but the title is “The trouble tree,” and it goes something like this: The carpenter I hired to help restore my...
Financial Freedom of Religion We just got back from The Feast of Tabernacles. And if you aren’t familiar with what that is, it’s a biblical holiday where Yahweh commands the children of Israel to dwell in tents for 7 days to remind them of the time they spent in the wilderness. (If you want to check it out in the scriptures, you can find this in Leviticus 23:33-44.) In other words, each...
Run your own race Recently I participated in my second ever half marathon. Consequently, it was also the second one I have done this year. And if you don’t know, a half marathon consists of running 13.1 miles. Now you may be asking yourself, “Why in the world would he do that?” To that I would answer that I have no idea. Well, that is not entirely true. One of the guys in the race...
The family board meeting Investors talk a lot about the financial freedom that comes from having investment property. We glamorize going on trips, not having a J.O.B. and feeling like we are more in control of our future because of the passive income from rental properties. But are those the real reasons why we invest in real estate? Let me clarify what I mean by that. ...
Riding the waves We’re down in the Florida panhandle at Navarre Beach this week. It has been beautiful while we’ve been here. Highs have been in the mid- to upper 80’s, and it has been mostly bright and sunny despite the forecast for thunderstorms. Don’t get me wrong: the storms are out in the gulf, but they seem to miss where we are every day aside from a few stray showers. At...