Author Archives: gmayeaux

Four days, four weeks and four months…

I have the next four days off. And by “off”, I mean “look at your email only occasionally.” (Hi, my name is Gail. I’m a workaholic and a responsibility junkie.) Yep, I admit it, I’m just a little bit obsessive about email and work. But, for four days, I need to let work go andContinue reading “Four days, four weeks and four months…”

Oh, Thursday!

Lately, I’ve been a bit busier than I had planned professionally. In terms of financial health and my microbusiness, that’s a very good thing. In terms of the considerable quiet space my brain needs? Umm, not so much. I need more downtime than I’ve been getting, honestly. On top of that, the weather has beenContinue reading “Oh, Thursday!”

Forty-seven million.

I’ve been doing some retirement planning. (Hint: I’m always doing retirement planning.) But I did the math. If a human being lives to 90 years old and there are 365 days in a year and 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour, a human will have just about 47 million minutesContinue reading “Forty-seven million.”

Strategically planning…

Last night, we held the first ever Family Strategic Planning Session. It may have been somewhat prompted by my doing strategic planning for a client, but our purpose was clear: this little family needed to build a life we didn’t have to escape from. And if we were going to do that? Well, we neededContinue reading “Strategically planning…”

Our porch(es) of indecision…

For the Jimmy Buffett fans out there, there is a place in Margaritaville just for us: the Porch of Indecision. And yet, out here in the rural wilds of WNY, there is another porch of indecision. It is uniquely ours. This spring as we get ready to replace our large back deck, we built theContinue reading “Our porch(es) of indecision…”

When the storm runs out of rain…

Yesterday was supposed to be a doozy and in several ways it was. While the storm – complete with tornado warnings – did not materialize, the day turned out to be momentous in its own ways. Finally, our rhetorical storm ran out of rain. For the past 11 years, we have been chasing our tailsContinue reading “When the storm runs out of rain…”

My “porch of indecision”

It’s no big secret that I am/was a huge Jimmy Buffett fan. Anyone who can celebrate summer, relaxation, a margarita and the ocean is just A-OK with me. While I often fantasize about living a Jimmy-like life, the truth is that I am also fairly confident he was an incredibly hard worker and did notContinue reading “My “porch of indecision””

Chasing wonder…

A friend recently commented about his typically wilder youth. My husband and I have the same tales. Driving too fast, trying something you should not, making an unwise decision to have fun rather than be serious at just the wrong time. Yep… we all have those stories. But somewhere around, let’s say, 40, the eventsContinue reading “Chasing wonder…”

And just like that…

Even this blog is not immune to the wild swings of the stock market these days as its author wants to retire. The closer I get, the more I fear something will dramatically upset the apple cart. I can handle just about everything but an upset apple cart. Please leave my apples and my cartContinue reading “And just like that…”