By: Laura Walton AFC® It was the end of the year and I was getting my car serviced when the new service manager introduced himself and gave me some FIAT swag – a nice water bottle customized to fit the holder. Then he asked if I’d consider buying an extended warranty. My car was just…
By: Laura Walton AFC® Congrats to my friend Heather who just completed, this very morning, 30 consecutive days of walking Tumamoc Hill at 5:30AM. She says, “Other than the physical byproduct of having stronger legs and lungs, I feel a sense of accomplishment and it’s been a good reminder that I truly can do anything I…
By: Laura Walton AFC® to own a home here? You’re vacationing in a great place, far away from the day-to-day life of work and home, it’s idyllic. But owning your home there may not be. Here’s an honest look at the pros and cons. We spent last weekend with friends in a cabin on Mt.…
By: Laura Walton AFC® If Richard Jefferson, former UA basketball star and current NBA player, had checked his, he likely would have caught the alleged $7M of fraudulent transactions. Here’s what happened… Richard Jefferson played under Lute Olson from 1998 to 2001; his final UA game was for the national title. He turned pro the…
By: Laura Walton AFC® Did you know we had a lost week? Apparently the 20.3 days of vacation that we took on average between 1978 and 2000 shrank to just 16 by 2014 – this is a crisis! But the good news is that it’s trending up…to 16.8 days in 2016. This week’s quiet offices,…
By: Laura Walton AFC® With the 4th of July coming next Tuesday, many of us will have a little extra time on our hands. I’ve got a couple of ideas for you. There is, of course, vacation. Husband Dave passed on a fun idea from the Wall Street Journal. It’s the brainchild of a creative travel…
By: Laura Walton AFC® That was the question the reporter asked the wealthy businessman who had come frompants nothing. His answer? “You can only wear one pair of pants at a time.” That remark has stayed with me – particularly when I look in my closet! Of course, it’s about more than pants. It’s about…
By: Laura Walton AFC® We say we want to improve our financial situation and that we know what to do, yet we struggle. This is what social scientists call the Intention/Action Gap. Dan Ariely, the behavioral economics expert and professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, is trying to bridge the Intention/Action Gap by “hacking…
By: Laura Walton AFC® here are things you can control and things that matter. When the two categories collide, that’s when you pay attention – the ball’s in your court to control the things that matter. It’s easy in our busy, distracted lives to spend too much time on things that don’t matter and too…
By: Laura Walton AFC® Pretty much everyone has one – it’s the thing you do on the side –the thing you’re interested in outside of work. It could be your hobby, it might even be your passion. And it could be lucrative. You’ve heard the expression, “don’t quit your day job.” Well, Killer Mike and…