August 14, 2024 10:40 am |
The biggest deal of my life
Yesterday evening, I submitted an AOS for the largest deal of my lifetime. By faaaaar. Like orders of magnitude.
I didn’t feel scared. My partner and I had thought through and carefully crafted all of the contingencies and clauses to protect us. We conferred multiple times about various risk mitigation options. I had been having good conversations with the seller’s broker.
This morning, my … Read more
August 7, 2024 12:36 pm |
The Struggle
I am in “learning and putting into practice” mode, reading as many investing and mindset books as I can. Podcast after podcast is in my ears as I walk and do laundry and cook. My Audible credits are only used for building my mindset and future – unless it’s Vacation time and then I just listen to the next good mystery book in my wish list. I watch … Read more
July 31, 2024 2:45 pm |
What’s an Intelligent Investor?
We have an investing “bible” in our house: Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor. We aim to read it at least once every 2 years. It gives me the only definition of “Investor” (vs. “Speculator”) that I accept. Graham states “An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”
In my … Read more
July 15, 2024 12:32 pm |
Imagine this: 9th grade Anita. Hurrying home from high school and racing to my Amma’s bedroom across from mine where there was an off-white corded phone on her nightstand. Plopping down. Waiting. And waiting. Day after day as the school’s Sadie Hawkins dance approached. I had asked the boy. He had smiled. There was no response…yet. (more on this story later in the post)
Folks, I need a rule … Read more
July 10, 2024 2:43 pm |
Why I Started Hyper-Calendaring
The most precious individual resources we have are time and health. While much of health is genetic and/or hereditary as well as environmental, the rest of it is entirely dependent upon what we do with our time. I was hit upside the head with this when I had my health challenges last year. The only actionable thing I could do per my doctors was to exercise … Read more
June 14, 2024 6:54 pm |
Here’s a confession: I think organized people are more trustworthy. I hate wasting time (fully acknowledging what “wasting” is varies person to person). I take pride in being efficient. I even said to my husband once that “being organized” means being able to locate something in 60 seconds or less. (Maybe I even said 30 seconds…?)
I think being organized is a choice. It represents personal values. One can be … Read more
June 12, 2024 6:33 pm |
At 5:28 am on Thursday June 6th, 2024, I finally did it. I finally finished something I started. It may have taken me 4+ years, but I did it. And I did it in a way that I am confident will stick.
In 2020, which for me is far more marked by the sudden loss of my mother that January from a suspected heart attack than the Coronavirus pandemic, I … Read more
