Author: Stu

For most of us in the military, we think of the 5 W’s as a reporting tool when things go wrong. Briefing the 5 W’s to leadership is never fun because it generally means someone that you are responsible for

It’s 2020 ya’ll! If you didn’t know this about me, I’m a Texas boy. I grew up in a small town in Central Texas where high school football was pretty much the most important thing going on in the town.

It’s Thanksgiving morning and I’ve been up since 0330, trying to get my son back to sleep. He has a fresh set of molars coming in and he has been waking up multiple times a night. As much as I

As an active duty military service member my daily duties don’t just happen between 9 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Many times, my work flows into nights, weekends and early mornings, which often makes it difficult to be

The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. This concept was recently introduced in the

I recently received a newsletter from the SEC attorney that I had used to try my hand at syndicating a deal. She typically doesn’t send mass emails to her clients so I figured it was important and I should read

What is Level 1 Financial Freedom? If you haven’t listened to David Pere’s latest podcast on From Military to Millionaire where he interviews Brandon Turner, you should. Finish reading this blog post and then immediately go and download the episode.

“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.” – John F. Kennedy What does freedom mean to you? For those of us in America, we live it

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”  ― Eleanor Roosevelt I was sitting in the Engineering Control Center (Maneuvering) underwater onboard my

We hear this word thrown out a lot; company’s use it as a part of their marketing campaign, churches talk about it in their sermons, and people add it to their resumes of things they’ve done. But, what does it