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Measuring the Success of Your Family
For 2023, consider making some adjustments for your family. I often say that one of the simple ways to measure the success…
Start with Your Family Stories
Building great family culture starts with stories. Brad Grey of Walking the Text teaches a simple truth: in Jewish families, from birth…
Writing A Terrible Life’s Legacy
Can you imagine writing a terrible legacy for your life? All it takes is one choice. For Jeroboam, this choice came at…
Church Funding—On the Long Term Decline?
Across Europe, we’ve seen many great and historic churches close. Some now are owned by businesses. Some are converted to mosques. For…
7 Paradoxes of Inheritance
When they hear the word “inheritance,” most people run. We typically associate inheritance with estate planning, which traditionally means working with lawyers, talking…
Give Away Your Passion
The blog below is from a few years ago but worth repeating. Give away your passion? No, this is not a blog…
What would you say to 50 college students?
They sat in front of me—50 of them, wide-eyed, eager, young, some with girlfriends or boyfriends, some engaged, and some with years…
Living Simply
Did you ever read My Side of the Mountain? It’s the story of a young boy who tells his parents that he’s…
Write a Letter to Your 20-Year-Old Self
Taylor Smith was 12 years old when she died on January 5, 2014, from complications from pneumonia. Her parents were devastated. But…
Moving from Cause Giving to Models
“People will actually invest in [the program] even if they don’t care about [the cause], because they care about the model,” says…
Prince and Other Famous People Who Died without a Will
Prince died on April 21, 2016. Within days, his sister Tyka Nelson filed papers in probate court alleging that he died without…