People’s lifecycles often include children being stupid. Here is one story contained in the recent Maryland Court of Special Appeals opinion in the case of In Re: S.K. that should give anyone pause, both parents and teenaged children alike. S.K., a 16-year-old girl sent two friends a one-minute digital video file of herself giving a …
Images Of Your Sexlife Are Just Plain Stupid, Sharing Them Is Even More So Read More »
What are Disability Trustees and Trusts? Some people for whom we do LifeCycle Planning, for a variety of reasons, cannot or should not be left in control of their own money. Sometimes, some people are just irresponsible spendthrifts or have other bad habits or addictions. Other times, people suffer from a disability that prevents them …
People Can Save Big Using Specialized Disability Trustees and Pooled Disability Trusts Read More »
Let’s face it: You own your own business to enhance your own life’s precious resources of self, time, effort, energy, emotion, intellect, property, and people by providing clients with your goods and services. You don’t do it just to employ people and pay your landlord, suppliers, and other vendors. If you’ve ever worked in a …
Most people fail to plan their lifecycles in advance, especially their last 20 to 30 years. And that time is just when they more likely than not will require more help caring for themselves. “Old folks,” as those over 60 eventually get called by their kids, often feel they are doing “pretty good” and blithly …
Do LifeCycle Planning Before You Need LifeCycle Performance! Read More »
Board governance of nonprofit organizations has increasingly become more akin to board governance of for-profit corporations after Enron’s debacle produced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). While no federal nonprofit laws similar to SOX have been passed, the IRS forms and instructions for the non-profit Forms 1023 and 990 are playing a major role in …
A Nonprofit Organization’s Board’s Rights, Duties, Responsibilities, and Liabilities Read More »
Nonprofits are a LifeCycle Trifecta! Remember that Chance card in Monopoly that reads, “Congratulations! You’ve been appointed to the Board of Directors. Please, pay $500”? How about the saying, “No good deed goes unpunished”? Or the favorite doctor’s soothing saying, “Relax, this won’t hurt a bit.” Well, speaking from a lot of education, training, and …
I’m Now a Board Member of a Nonprofit Corporation. What’s My Duty and Liability? Read More »
Many people claim LifeCycle planning is nothing more than estate planning. Nothing could be further from the truth. LifeCycle planning includes proactively paying attention to as many of the legal issues that may arise in your lifecycle as possible, rank them based on probability of occurrence and significance of impact and then developing the intention …
Estate Planning is But a Part of LifeCycle Planning Read More »
LifeCycle Lawyers almost always begin working with any new client by helping that client draft a will if he or she doesn’t already have one or reviewing and improving any existing will a new client may have. There are several reasons why. First, no one with a body temperature above 70 degrees should be doing …
Get Your Will Done, Now! – Then We Can Improve the Rest of Your LifeCycle Read More »
Are you troubled by feeling your life has no meaning? There is a Great! alternative to that aching of emptiness. By learning the definition of Greatness! and applying the P10 Principle to almost everything you do, you can find peace and satisfaction and have a much more meaningful daily existence. You can be Great! All …
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Let me ask you this. Have you ever whined, “I don’t own my life; my life owns me!”? In my work as a LifeCycle counselor, I hear this a lot. Every now and then, however, I meet someone new and I ask that person how he or she is doing and he or she responds, …
