The book, Die with Zero, Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life, is sooooooo good. Admittedly I’m not finished with it yet but the principles it is recommending are already apparent. Don’t die without squeezing all you can from life. If you leave a ton of money in the bank or never make it to your idyllic “retirement,” then you wasted a lot of time working, usually at a job you didn’t enjoy, which is a tragedy. One principle to illuminate this is of an amazing trip that you take. Each time you think of it, it pays you a memory dividend. Think about that. Think about a trip you’ve taken. There is probably one that stands out more than the rest. Those memories are profound. Also, the early you take these memorable trips, the longer they pay those dividends. You may disagree, and that’s ok, but this is hitting me hard right now. The kids are 16, 13 (almost 14) and 9. We are taking lots of trips, some small and some large and I feel these dividends hitting me well for some of my favorite trips. I’ll try to remember to update this once I finish the book. It shouldn’t take long because this is such a good book that I’m going to keep plowing through quickly (unless one of my other books takes over- another great one I’m readin now is the Omniovore’s Dilemma by Michael Polen).