The whole purpose of money is as a tool to give you a better life. That's always been my mantra.

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For the last 15 years or so, I have a Google Doc, a save on my desktop that is titled Things I'm Pretty Sure About.

And these are just random observations that I've had, oftentimes from talking to other people or reading something, a note that I jot down, a little note about life and business and

investing that I try to make a note of. I've been trying to become a better note taker for many

years. I don't know if I'm that good at it yet. But I have this file of just a reminder of things

that I've learned that I think are really important to me personally, but hopefully for the

people who might read the things that I write. And I want to

share with you a bunch of them today. A fair warning, these are very random ideas that don't have

a lot of connection to one another. These are just short ideas that have been helpful for me,

and maybe, hopefully, you'll see they're helpful for you. So let me jump right into it.

You don't have to know exactly what the future holds to know that some people will handle it

better than others.

Gosh, isn't that true?

You don't need to know when the next recession is going to come or what the next new technology

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