Your friendly neighborhood columnist Neil here.

Just a few thoughts to hopefully give you a better understanding regarding the intent of this blurb.

I have had my share of successes in life: A long-standing marriage to the gal of my dreams, eliminating a significant amount of personal debt, owning a home (and not going into default!), running my own business and playing music for a living, and probably a lot of other things I am forgetting to include, but I think you get the idea.

I now find myself in my late 30’s doing well, but not really making a significant amount of headway forward from the point I am currently at. This is where this column and YOU come in!

I am not a financial expert nor do I consider myself much of an expert on many things in general, but I do have a talent for researching good information and presenting it in a way which is easy to digest and understand. I started this column with the intention of not only sharing my methods and strategies for financial and personal success, but also to build a community where the readers are actually partners and contributors and everyone shares their own methods of success so I can learn from you while we all learn from each other some great ways to get ahead and obtain the things in life we all should have.