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We can easily get caught up in all the craziness – the cooking, hosting, travelling, buying gifts, managing relationships and dozens of other stressors that inevitably come around these last five weeks of the year. On the Friday following Thanksgiving, my wife had set us up as a family to volunteer at a soup kitchen and help serve meals to the homeless here in Hartford. It was a wonderful experience for us as a family. https://resilientperspectives.com/blog-2-2/23-million-what-you-are-not-and-being-thankful-for-it monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67409272bc39cc7b136e23da/1740941631431-XWONCTSD20NA0E5K4W32/gas+station.jpg Our Blog Posts - 30 Seconds - I was having a bad morning recently. I was back in a court room for the first time since my sentencing back in early 2017. On that day I pled guilty and was sentenced to concurrent 7-year prison terms for committing felony armed robberies at a small bank. 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The last reunion I went to was our 25th, 10 years ago and when I was still seen as a rather successful person in the conventional sense. The wonderful classmates who took their valuable time to put this event together were very supportive in the invite process, and openly pushed for my attendance. I would be walking into a room where I was not that husband, father, soccer coach, Mercedes Benz- driving country club alpha male – but now a convicted Felon and coming off a six-year stay with the Connecticut Department of Corrections. https://resilientperspectives.com/blog-2-2/blog-post-title-one-bk76k monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67409272bc39cc7b136e23da/1740943227121-PMP2IBE5TU5RYQ10OO77/katie-harp-aGwT9nSiTWU-unsplash.jpg Our Blog Posts - From $400/hour to $0.09/hour In 2010 - my best year as a wholesaler I made just over $811,000. An amazing blessing as this was an incredible amount of money to make. 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