When I work with families with higher net worth, they often ask the same questions about how to handle their wealth. Their questions generally cover the following 4 key areas: If I pass on wealth to my family, how will it affect them? How will my family manage the affairs of my estate and any ongoing management issues? Should I …
What is the key factor influencing the direction of America? The world? In The Next 100 Years, George Friedman writes that the single greatest factor influencing the world is population decline. Progressively, families around the world have grown increasingly smaller. It’s a simple fact: less kids means less workers. Less kids means less people for armies. Less kids means less …
There are a lot of C-level titles—Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and the list could go on and on. But what about Chief Giving Officer? Does your company have one? A Chief Giving Officer has the responsibility to implement a company’s giving strategy. Sometimes that responsibility includes creating an implementing a strategy. Perhaps one of the …
Do you know anyone who says they are not busy? Even the retirees I know all tell me they are busy. What’s led to this sense of madness, this overwhelming sense of noise, and how do we calm it down? Here are 9 tips for bringing some simplicity back into your life Purge your stuff. Go through your stuff. …
In this day and age, we talk little of ownership. It is presumed. In fact, from the earliest age, we proclaim, “mine!” And that possessive nature never really seems to let go unless we have some tragedy or crisis that exposes our illness. A.W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God says it this way: There can be no real doubt …
Can you imagine a business lasting 3 generations? Perhaps you’ve heard the adage: shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations. In America, it’s an astonishing failure rate in generation 2—70% and in generation 3 a whopping over-85% failure rate. So is it hard to imagine 40 generations? William O’Hara wrote Centuries of Success, a book chronicling family business with literally generations …
He died at the age of 43 following an emergency appendectomy. Prior to that time, he’d spent the majority of his time pursuing higher education. He attended the University of Edinburgh, followed by Dunoon College, with stints at bible colleges in Cincinnati, OH and the Tokyo Bible School. For a decade, he was either a traveling speaker, teaching at a …
Irrational—not logical or reasonable Have you ever considered the idea of living with irrational generosity? When it doesn’t make sense? When the numbers just don’t seem to add up? Some people might call it living on the edge. Do you remember the story of the five loaves and the two fish? It started with a kid. He had those five …
Living generously is really pretty simple. Sometimes we just need a few ideas to spur us on. Here are eleven suggestions: Write a thank you note to a teacher who most influenced you Offer to babysit for a young couple so they can have a date night Take your neighbor’s trash can in from the street Sell something you own …
We spend most of our lives waiting for our “when.” When I get that promotion. When I get that new house. When I get the kids in preschool.When I get the kids off to college.When I win the lottery. And so it goes.The idea is that whenever I reach my “when,” then I’ll be happy. But there is in fact a …
