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Travis Shelton 11/16/25 Travis Shelton 11/16/25

Reverse Engineering Your Obituary

What will your obituary say? What do you want your obituary to say?

Travis Shelton 11/9/25 Travis Shelton 11/9/25

Midlife Crisis: Year 2

Today is a sad day in the Shelton household. Today is the day when my 350Z (aka my midlife crisis, as my friend Emma calls it) gets stored away for the winter.

Travis Shelton 11/4/25 Travis Shelton 11/4/25

Letting Go

Letting go is the hardest thing in the world. It reminds me of something a pastor once told me: "If everything God tells you to do is what you already wanted to do anyway, that's not God. That's you living for your own selfish desires and using God to justify it." Ouch.

Travis Shelton 11/3/25 Travis Shelton 11/3/25

Not Going to the Grave With Me

Every so often, I feel the need to ask for Sarah's opinion before publishing a blog or podcast. Either the content is too sensitive, or I feel a tinge of doubt. Last December, when I presented something to Sarah, her response was, "Please don't post this. I think you'll regret it." I canned it. For the past 10 months, it's just been sitting in my drafts.

Travis Shelton 10/31/25 Travis Shelton 10/31/25

So?

He knows exactly what he doesn't want to do......and he knows exactly what he does want to do. There's one thing that stands in his way, though. "What if I'm not good at it?" Fear. More specifically, the fear of failure.

Travis Shelton 10/30/25 Travis Shelton 10/30/25

A Heavy Anchor

A huge shout-out to the couple that granted me permission to share this story. I pray good comes from it, and that my harsh-ish words can move the needle in their marriage!

Travis Shelton 10/21/25 Travis Shelton 10/21/25

Just Imagine If You Did

He hates his job, but has a TON of meaning in his life. Between his family, friends, traveling, and hobbies, his life is full of meaning and he doesn't need a "f@#%ing job" to give him meaning.

Travis Shelton 10/14/25 Travis Shelton 10/14/25

Rich

I recently met with a new client. Right on cue, I opened the couple's spreadsheet and prepared to cast it onto the TV affixed on the wall. As I was about to start talking, the husband interrupted. "No matter what your spreadsheet says, we're rich."

Travis Shelton 10/11/25 Travis Shelton 10/11/25

My Collections

After much consideration, it dawned on me that I do, in fact, collect things. However, instead of collecting material things like I used to when I was younger, my collections look different now.

Travis Shelton 10/10/25 Travis Shelton 10/10/25

Collecting?

Travis Shelton 10/9/25 Travis Shelton 10/9/25

…..For Me

Whoa, I really stepped on a landmine with yesterday's post. I received countless e-mails and texts from people about my young friend's "irresponsible" coffee habit.

Travis Shelton 10/8/25 Travis Shelton 10/8/25

Don’t Miss the Big Rocks

One of my friends wants to get right with her money. She's sick of working so hard, yet feeling so little progress. She makes good money, but there never seems to be enough. She might as well be a hamster in a wheel. She's running fast, but not going far.

Travis Shelton 10/7/25 Travis Shelton 10/7/25

The Financial Paradox

"For stressing the importance of meaning over money, you sure do talk about money a lot." Ouch! While I could have taken offense to this, I think it brings up an important idea.

Travis Shelton 10/5/25 Travis Shelton 10/5/25

At 4PM

Have you ever had the Sunday Scaries? I know I have! Based on the data, there's a high likelihood that more than half the people reading this know exactly what I'm talking about!

Travis Shelton 10/4/25 Travis Shelton 10/4/25

In a Snap

Then, it happened. After a sequence of truly tragic events, we lost our daughters. To say we were gutted would be the understatement of a lifetime.

Travis Shelton 9/25/25 Travis Shelton 9/25/25

Investing In Two Little Banditos

There are a lot of things I could have used with this money, time, and bandwidth, but I'm glad I invested all of that into making memories with the kids.

Travis Shelton 9/24/25 Travis Shelton 9/24/25

A View to the Other Side

Travis Shelton 9/22/25 Travis Shelton 9/22/25

It’s Just Money: SAHM Edition

In more than 90% of situations (by my estimation), a family will end up worse off financially by electing to have one spouse stay at home instead of paying for childcare and having the second spouse work a paid job.

Travis Shelton 9/21/25 Travis Shelton 9/21/25

It’s Just Money

One of my partners expressed concern for my personal finances and the potential negative implications of implementing such an idea. "It's just money," I responded.

Travis Shelton 9/15/25 Travis Shelton 9/15/25

Permission Granted

My inbox and phone have been flooded with messages over the past few days. People are struggling with all sorts of emotions right now. One particular message hit especially hard.

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