A resource for my four incredible children—a way to share information that took me decades to learn and provide a curated starting point for navigating life.
Welcome to Think Decades
Long-term thinking for relationships, health, purpose, and wealth.
This project began as a resource for my four incredible children—a way to share information that took me decades to learn and to give them a starting point they can reference as needed.
Why “Think Decades”
It is so easy to get caught up in the busyness of day-to-day life. A decade-long lens changes the questions:
What habits and skills will still matter ten years from now?
What relationships do I want to deepen and strengthen?
What health choices will preserve my energy for the next decade?
What purpose will fuel me—over time through success and setbacks?
How should I handle finances to support my family for decades to come?
This blog is my starting manual for those questions. It’s written for my kids—and for anyone thinking long-term.
What You’ll Find Here
My Guiding Principles & Routines
Posts covering the big four: relationships, health, purpose, wealth.
Resources to continue your learning.
I write to learn and organizing my thinking, not to pose as the expert. I’ll revise these pages continuously as I learn more more. I did use ChatGPT to help organize some of the content. My goal is to provide a great starting point on a number of topics and save my children the years (if not decades) it took me to learn this information.
To My Children
This is a tiny, tiny gift for you—what I’ve learned, where I’ve failed, and some knowledge I hope you carry forward. You won’t live my life, and I don’t want you to. I want you to build yours—with wisdom, courage, discipline, love, and long-term thinking. My prayer for you is the following:
"Let the God in this child have perfect expression; let the Divine Design of his mind, body and affairs be made manifest throughout his life, throughout eternity." - Florence Scovel Shinn
To Everyone Else
Welcome. Borrow what’s useful, ignore what isn’t, and please provide feedback where needed. If my thinking is wrong on a topic, I want to know. As Marcus Aurelius said,
"If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance."
Let’s choose the hard things that age well, invest in people, take care of our bodies, do meaningful work, and steward our resources with wisdom. Think in decades. Act today.
