decisions – From The Bach Row

It has been exactly 30 years since we sold our townhouse in Skokie, IL, which we owned for less than a year, and moved to Massachusetts so that I could take a job in scientific sales & marketing. It was a significant risk for a “YUPPIE” couple that had been married for only a couple of years. mrsfromthebachrow quit her job for me to make the career leap to an area that would later become the biotech capital of the world. Did we comprehend the scale of picking up and moving in a very short period? Nope, didn’t have a clue, but the youthful exuberance and the quest to get out of a dead-end and toxic laboratory job motivated to act. After 30 years, I can now pause and reflect on parts of the experience since that risky repositioning. Continue reading “Playing On The Tracks: The Origins of a Personal Escape Velocity”

I follow a handful of bloggers that cover personal finance on one end of my interest scale to leadership on the other end. In resources, I list a few of the FIRE bloggers that I follow and at times, I occasionally make a few comments on the posts that they write. Most times, I read the piece, and pull out one or two helpful nuggets of their perspective think about them for a while, and figure out how I can utilize the information. Sometimes I even save a couple of the sites or tools that are referenced and refer to them later where I retrieve them from my Favorites folder. I don’t take too much action unless it grabs my attention and imagination. I’ll leave my option open to re-read the blog later on. Guess what? Later never seems to materialize as the sense of urgency has peaked and it’s never the same stimuli later on. It’s a component of the “decay rate.” Continue reading “How Make Better Decisions That Lead To Action”