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I have now entered into my 10th month of blogging, I started on July 9th of last year. During that time, there have been some pretty big swings, emotional and otherwise (much like the investment markets themselves), and Chance Favors has zigzagged in a few different directions over that time.

I think blogging is an evolutionary process… let me correct that - I know blogging is an evolutionary process. You have this picture in your mind of where you want to go with your precious cargo and it never quite turns out that way, things change.

Dealing With The Ups and Downs

I’ve read many times over - that you have to find your voice and your blogging comfort zone. Well, I’m here to say that is very very true and I have struggled mightily along the way.

There have been days where I’ve been elated by some little bit of success and channeled that positive energy for hours on end. There are days where I sit in from of the key board almost loathing it, depressed by it - the key letters as foreign as another language.

Continue Reading “The Quiet Before The Storm”

This week is going to be a light week when it comes to original planning related content.

I’ve transitioned out of mutual fund related posts and am preparing to enter into an area that I plan on spending quite a bit of time on… Down Home planning.

In my mind I know what I want to accomplish with this next phase of the blog, but figuring out exactly how to bring it to life, for my millions of readers (haha), is another animal all together.

Right now, I’m diligently researching many of the different mechanisms that will be involved in the ‘Down Home’ segment of this blog, and hope to present my ideas as clearly as possible.

I’m also in the process of building a lineup of friends that are going to be the subjects of the upcoming posts. They will remain anonymous, but are mostly the same people that gave me the answers to the straw poll I conducted before I started this weblog.

Continue Reading “Transitioning into ‘Down Home’ planning”

In the ‘About’ widget, that appears on the right hand side of every page, it reads, ‘There’s a heavy focus on all things Roth IRA, with special attention given to the upcoming 2010 Roth conversion event.

Now I know some of you have definitely heard of the Roth IRA and maybe even a few of you know what a Roth Conversion is, but I’m pretty sure nobody has heard of ‘Down Home’ financial planning. Well, I plan on changing that fact (pardon the pun).

I know you’re probably jonesing to know more about ‘Down Home’, but first a little background about ‘formal’ planning…

Continue Reading “‘Down Home’ financial planning”