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Why This Timeless Gift Will Make Your Mother’s Heart Soar Forever
The best gift I ever gave to my mother was a tribute letter, which I read in front of our family.
That moment sealed a reconciliation twenty years earlier on a three-hour drive from San Antonio to Waco.
Mother’s outstanding qualities were wrapped inside a volatile temper.
Unforgiveness locked my spirit for years.
But a liberating three-hour drive from San Antonio to Waco broke the logjam of hurt and set us on the path to a good relationship.
Here’s how the drive unfolded.
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On a recent sailing trip to the BVI, I saw three treasures for a good life.
Our friends, Marc and Sandy Abadie, invited us on the trip of a lifetime.
They have sailed with family and friends over thirty years throughout the British Virgin Islands.
So, when they texted us and asked, “Do you want to go sailing in three weeks?” My wife said, “I’m so excited, I can scream!”
The British Virgin Islands are renowned for their aqua-blue waters and diverse array of marine life. We saw hawksbill turtles gliding through coral gardens and pods of dolphins playing in Virgin Gorda Sound and eagle rays soaring past the dramatic rock formations at The Indians.
No one can replicate paradise’s locations and circumstances every day.
However, the BVI offers rich reminders for living a good life.
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Is it possible to experience powerful healing when pain brands the soul?
Our family encountered much pain this past year.
Some of us benefitted from physical healing, and other family members have not.
- I recovered from knee pain.
- Judy recovered from a thyroidectomy.
- My brother-in-law is a quadriplegic.
- My mother-in-law is 96 and bedridden.
But we have survived loss, uncertainty, and great pain.
How? Powerful hope from those who gathered at the first Easter service.
Stock market panic: How to channel chaos into a rich future
After 44 years of living through stock market volatility, I know why the smartest investors never panic.
They see chaos as a chance to make their future brighter. They cheat financial market chaos.
Rather than allowing the fear of a moment to dictate direction, they stick to a well-thought-out plan to proceed up the path to success.
Panic is not a plan.
Patience is.
I have owned stocks and lived through ten of the worst one-day stock market declines from 1981 to 2025.
I was there then and am here now, still owning stocks and not panicking or selling.
Stock market panic is not a plan
In fact, from 2000 to 2002, I lectured about wise investing at meetings around the country as the NASDAQ was on its way to losing 80% of its value from the March 2000 top to the October 2002 low. The Dow lost 50% of its value during the same time.
Indeed, since 1980, the S&P 500 has had an average intra-year drop of 14%. This includes all years, whether they end positively or negatively. I started my financial services business in 1981 and have witnessed this phenomenon for 44 years.
As we all know, the precipitants of this decline have been the Trump tariffs, the extent of which can’t be predicted.
We don’t know where, when, or how these phenomena will occur. We have no control over uncertainty, but we can have perfect control over how we respond.
Or, ideally, how we don’t respond.
The last thing in the world that long-term, goal-focused savers and builders of wealth do when the whole world is selling is – you know – sell.
A diversified stock portfolio is a plan
Don’t confuse headline risk with portfolio risk.
Remember that your stock portfolio is not an index that goes up or down daily. It is a portfolio of actual companies with real earnings.
So, coach, what if it declines tomorrow? It doesn’t matter what markets do tomorrow; what matters is what they ultimately do. What matters is that you own a highly diversified portfolio of well-managed companies that make and sell products that the world needs, demands, and pays for.
If you doubt this, read Robert Bryce’s book Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper.
The best investment advice you can ever follow has three qualities.
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