Dear Fellow Shareholders, This is my second letter to you. Boy, what a year 2020 was! I’m going to start this letter by beginning at the end of the previous one, which came out four weeks after the COVID-19 Pandemic started to dominate our daily lives. I regularly describe 2020 as the longest and fastest year on record. We entered a generationally defining event abruptly, without any advance notice to prepare for the changes that would be forced upon our way of living. We got to witness some pretty wild things in 2020: Shelter in place and stay at home orders. Non-essential businesses forced to close. Massive unemployment, particularly in industries hit the hardest by the government orders given to …
January 2021 – Detailed Financial Report #73 – Net Worth $2,614,367
Bam! That is the best word I can use to describe January. It started with a Boom! had a few a Bangs! and ended with a Bam! What does that even mean? It means there were a lot of good things that happened while under incredible overwhelm during certain points in the month. Many of you know that I took a nice long break in November, but what many of you don’t know is the grueling schedule I started on December 1st and maintained for about eight weeks. I went from enjoying the beach and working only a few hours a day in November to working like a full-blown maniac. I was waking up between 3 am and 4 am …