To Inspire: I (Matt) am reading a fascinating book, Building A Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, by Donald Miller. Source:  www.buildingastorybrand.com   The overall strategy he shares is powerful and can be applied broadly, including, even, our personal lives.  To illustrate, let me share the principles he uses – principles that […]

To Inspire: Source: www.csw.osu.edu   Mark and I attended a reception last night in celebration of the 100th anniversary of OSU’s College of Social Work, founded in 1919.  Our father, Joe Palmer, was an alum of the College and a member of their Hall of Fame.  The event was held in a large hangar at […]

To Inspire: As our nation celebrates Father’s Day this Sunday, we thought you might enjoy learning a bit of its history. Scholars claim that it can be traced back 4000 years to Babylon when a young boy’s Father’s Day message in clay wishing his father good health and long life was discovered recently. Our modern […]

To Inspire: “Greater love hath no man but that he lay down his life for his friends.” These words, spoken by Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, rang with poignant truth 75 years ago when on June 6, 1944, 150,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on the shores of northern France to help liberate that […]

To Inspire: Perhaps last Sunday you saw the CBS Sunday Morning feature on Curtis Jenkins, a bus driver for Lake Highlands Elementary School in Dallas, TX. Curtis Jenkins (Source: www.cbsnews.com)   At first blush, one might be tempted to see his job as relatively unimportant.  But Curtis sees it otherwise – he has made himself […]

To Inspire: Tis the graduation season and I (Matt) always look forward to commencement addresses.  This year did not disappoint as Lisa and I drove over to Blacksburg, VA for the graduation of our niece from Virginia Tech.  The commencement address was given by Frank Beamer, the former longtime head football coach and a man […]

To Inspire: Source: www.guideposts.org   A recent article from the April issue of Guideposts Magazine caught my (Matt) attention.  The author, Kevin Curry, shared how he had used his own struggle with depression to build an entirely new career that helps others.  I thought that sharing his story in this issue of Wealth Notes might […]

To Inspire: In our last two WealthNotes, we shared ways to build good habits and break bad ones – as shared in James Clear’s New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits.  In this WealthNote, we share 8 great habits that are almost universally shared by people who have built considerable wealth.  These are based on findings […]

To Inspire: We received very positive feedback from our inspirational WealthNote on building good habits – habits that help us live a great life – a life of joy, of purpose, of passion.  The strategies we shared were taken from a book that both Travis (Upton) and I (Matt) are reading by James Clear, Atomic […]

To Inspire: Travis (Upton) and I (Matt) both are reading Jim Clear’s book, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones.  We’re finding it tremendously helpful in our own journey to live a great life – a life of purpose, of joy, of using time wisely.  We recommend […]