Making the Most of Year-End: A Practical Guide
December 2025 Year-end planning letters typically arrive stuffed with charts, acronyms, and dozens of action items that leave you feeling overwhelmed before you finish reading. We're going to take a different approach. Let's talk about the handful of things that actually move the needle. The Big Picture Before we dive into tactics, let's be clear about what matters: You want to keep more of what you earn, protect what you've built, and pass on something meaningful to the people and causes you care about. Everything else is just mechanics. The tax code changes regularly, exemption limits shift with inflation, and [...]
Letter to My Daughters: On Professions and Callings
“He measured all his fellow workers by the test of professionalism, and a professional is a man who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”--Alistair Cooke, About Humphrey Bogart from his book “Six Men." “A job is different from a calling. A job puts food on the table. It pays the bills. A calling is the most important thing you can do in this life in which you would be most difficult to replace.”--Gary North My definition: A calling feeds your soul; a profession feeds your body. You get paid for your profession; you may very well [...]