by Jim Chaput | Apr 23, 2020 | Jim's Blog
It’s easy to look back at past decisions and think, I should have done it differently. I sometimes think I should have spent less and saved more in my 20s and 30s. When we lived in London, maybe we should have kept that Swampscott house for rental property instead of...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 22, 2020 | Jim's Blog
To continue the tradition we started last year, Trish and I wrote another blog post to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Today marks 20 years. On the day of our wedding, we never could have guessed where we would be and what we would be doing now. One of the keys to...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 21, 2020 | Jim's Blog
This weekend, I was reminded of an effective way to establish habits. Immediately after you do the behavior, give yourself a reward. Although I am pretty good at building habits, I decided it’s a good time to reinforce a couple things at which I have been...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 20, 2020 | Jim's Blog
I have heard it said that if you win the morning, you win the day. Sometimes it seems like the morning is driven by the choices we made the previous night. Maybe the key to winning the morning is a strong finish to the day before. Consider these scenarios: Option 1:...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 19, 2020 | Jim's Blog
Some jobs are so daunting that it’s hard to even start. Instead we dream about how things could be and talk about what we need to do or should do. Planning is good, but at some point we need to take action. Our website is a good example of this. I know I want it to...
by Jim Chaput | Apr 18, 2020 | Jim's Blog
We had the joy of the smoke alarm battery notifying us it needed a change in the middle of the night. Perhaps we could have slept through it, but Roli was having none of that. Apparently he associates the chirping of smoke alarms with impending doom, so there was no...
