Brent Esplin

A “My 100 List” and a Budget are Powerful Tools to Help You Live Your Best Life

“He’s been chased by Masai warriors in Tanzania.  Slept in snow caves to survive.  Swum through New Zealand caves to see glowing worms.  Stopped a bear from dragging his friend away in a sleeping bag…” So begins an article about Stacy Taniguchi, BYU professor of experience design and management, in the Winter 2019 edition of BYU…

The 10 Smartest Things Said About Investing by Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle

John C. (Jack) Bogle died January 18, 2019 at the age of 89.  Bogle created the first widely available index fund and relentlessly worked to lower investment costs, eventually forcing other mutual fund companies to follow his lead.   It is not an exaggeration to say that Bogle did more for individual investors than anyone…

The Dickens Process: Lessons from Ebenezer Scrooge on How to Transform Your Life

For me the Christmas season isn’t complete without reading or seeing a theatrical presentation of Charles Dickens’ “Ghostly little book” A Christmas Carol.  Nothing conjures the Christmas spirit quite like watching the miserable old miser Ebenezer Scrooge transform into a jolly philanthropist due to a trio of ghostly visitors, the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present,…

4 Fantastic Ideas to Help Grandchildren Financially Without Spoiling Them

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents can do.  Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.  – Alex Haley, author of Roots It might be true that grandparents sprinkle stardust over the lives of their grandchildren but grandparents are richly rewarded in return.  I had always heard how great it…