Benchmarking – Measure Yourself Against Something

Benchmarking is the lazy way to set goals. One, it’s not you setting the goal, it’s someone else. Two, hopefully you select a meaningful benchmark. And three, the benchmark is some generally accepted level. This takes the thinking out of setting a goal so you can focus on measuring yourself to a benchmark. I recently … Read more

Learn to Pay Less Income Tax

So Amazon pays $0 income tax. Why? Because they know how income taxes work. They make decisions based on the choice to pay lower taxes and they keep up with the changes. The Bloomberg article tells how Amazon is able to pay no federal income tax, through tax deductions. They receive deductions for paying their … Read more

Resolutions are Crap, Set Goals Instead

First post of 2019, here we go.   New year’s resolutions are crap. The talk about resolutions usually starts before the holidays. Then right after new year’s (after the hangover wears off) you start to lay these down.  Come February, your resolutions are usually already broken and you completely forget about it by March. Go … Read more