Author: Mentor Benjamin Mathew Drake

husband and father, mentor and coach, model train expert

This Week’s Jump-Start–Questions to Ponder

Mentor Benjamin Mathew Drake
Mentor Ben Drake

This Week’s Jump-Start This week I simply have some questions for you to ponder as you go about your daily activities: • If it weren’t for time, money or circumstances, how would you choose to spend your life? • What do you enjoy doing most that you’re not doing now? • What special talents, skills […]

Mentor Benjamin Mathew Drake
Mentor Ben Drake

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.”Henry Ward Beecher1813-1887, Clergyman and AbolitionistFrom Insight of the Day emails

How to laugh at your savings account.

Mentor Benjamin Mathew Drake
Mentor Ben Drake

How to laugh at your savings account.With interest rates around 2%, how much money do you need in a savings account to earn $500 a month in interest?A. $50,000B. $150,000C. $300,000What did you guess?The correct answer is $300,000. Just think how long you would have to work to earn $300,000 after taxes. And then you […]