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If we were sitting at Starbucks or around the campfire – after finding out about you, what you are doing and had done and how that all came about – I would inquire about some of those things that were either formative or landmark experiences …

I will hope we get that chance one day but until then I will share some of these things with you. 1972 was both formative and a landmark. Relationships between fathers and sons are often complicated. So was mine. In 1972 I became a father and my father offered me three pieces of advice that I sorely needed (My wife – the love of my life – and I had already been shocked to find that two carefree hippies were confirmed workaholics about to seriously embark on parenthood). Now that I was a father he suggested that I 1) get life insurance 2) start saving and investing at least 10% of all I earned and 3) start reading The Wall Street Journal every day.

This began several more love affairs. As an entrepreneur since childhood I developed a fascination with investment and financial markets and gradually came to LOVE The Wall Street Journal. It is indeed the daily diary of the American Dream and the tapestry is richer and deeper every week, every month, and every year.

I have had several careers now but The Wall Street Journal is the boldest, most colorful and serendipitous thread that runs through all of them. It binds both loosely and tightly many of the professional relationships that I have been and continue to be blessed with.

At Starbucks or around the campfire – this is probably one story that I would want to share with you!!!

Of course I have Facebook and TED profiles but you can find out a good deal more about me at Coaching for Achievement or 7 Minutes with The Wall Street Journal.

I speak to Financial Advisors a great deal (Video Intro) about a host of issues . If I could only offer one piece of advice beyond a clarity about your client principles and training yourself to listen to those clients (Can We Listen it would be to begin an affair: a love affair with The Wall Street Journal just like the one my father helped me begin.