Consilio Blog
Let's Get Artsy!
Okay, let’s face it…waiting for summer, even spring, for that matter, is getting old. Keeping my spirits up is stretching the bounds of my creativity. Yesterday someone reminded me of something I must have conveniently forgotten. Did last summer really start on the fourth of July?Read More >>
Want amazing? Try conflict.
I hate conflict. It makes me uncomfortable.Read More >>
The B word
With the tax season in our midst, you are probably reviewing just how much money you made last year and coming to grips with where that money went. Did you make more than you expected? Or did you spend more than you had planned?Read More >>
2 paths to an easy tax season
You just picked up a letter from the IRS in your mailbox. You want to believe they’ve written you a thank you for last year’s prompt tax remittance. After you snap out of it and open the letter, you realize the IRS will be trudging through your return from three years ago. Three years ago was year 2 of your business—the year you tripled your income. You have no recollection of the return, the CPA who prepared it, much less where you put your copy of the return and the paper trail that supports it.Read More >>
More caffeine is not the answer!
I’ve always been fascinated by the brain. In college I spent many hours in the “bio” lab deeply studying and drawing a preserved brain floating in a glass jar. I still have that drawing. Each time I look at it, it’s as if I’ve never seen it before, and the same question comes to mind, “How on earth does that odd mass of cells process all that comes in contact with it?”Read More >>