Lately, we have seen so much about being accepting and inclusive to people of all types and how this is needed in our world.  Each of us brings something unique to this world and by excluding people we can miss out on some really great things.  But diversity cannot and should not be limited to just people.  Think about investing, would you really want to put all of your savings in just one company?  No, you pick some stocks and also invest in some real estate.  But why in this world where we are touting the benefits of diversity, are we overlooking other areas such as our energy production? For…

I am the type of person that likes to have systems in place to make things easier.  Years ago I realized every time my family would plan a trip I would write out a list of everything we would need to pack so I could make sure we didn’t forget to pack anything.  I don’t know how many times I wrote out these lists before I realized they were basically the same, with some exceptions depending on where we were going so why did I keep rewriting the same list?  I moved my list into tables in word documents and created different ones as needed.  We have a general packing…