The Everyday Advantage
Sustainable growth for a centered life
The Everyday Advantage is a space for thoughtful exploration and intentional growth. With book reviews, meaningful meditations, and curated resources, we offer practical tools to help you find balance and live with purpose.
Our goal isn’t about doing more its about learning to live better.
Book Review – The Master Plan
Chris Wilson's story is one you should know. He provides a no-holds-barred account of it in his book, "The Master Plan". Sentenced as a teenager to life in prison, Wilson isn't abandoned to despair. In fact, it's just the opposite. ...
Bartow’s Crime Rate – The Rest of the Story
Recently an article appeared in The Ledger that identified Bartow as Polk County’s new crime “hot spot”. While the facts represented in the story are accurate (we have had a recent uptick, especially in property crimes), the article doesn’t tell all of the story. In...
Protecting Local Self Government
The legislative session in Florida has not even begun and city leaders are already having to defend our right to local self government. If you have spent any time around one of Bartow’s City Commissioners, you have undoubtably heard us talk about the importance of...
Meet Maggie
The girls made a quick trip downtown to pick up a few things from Bealls Outlet and somehow managed to come home with a dog. ? After a year long battle with seizures, our beloved Scout passed away in October. We’ve been waiting for the...
2019 Annual Chamber Dinner
Jennifer and I had a great time celebrating with friends at the annual Bartow Chamber of Commerce dinner. The theme was Mardi Gras. And, for once I actually won something in the silent auction – A nice basket of whiskeys....
Favorite Books of 2018
Most really successful, diligent people have already compiled all their “Best __________ of 2018” posts. Heck most of them were finished before 2018 was. I am not that guy. ?♂️ So, better late than never, here are my favorite five books from last year. My...
Book Review – Oliver Twist
I am embarrassed to say that there are quite a few gaping holes in my library. Last month I plugged one of them by finally reading Oliver Twist. I knew the framework of the story – an orphaned boy travels to London, meets lovable scamps,...
While I Was Away
It’s been a while since I have checked in with a new post. Kinda got sidetracked with roughly a hundred other things that came my way. This year has ushered in quite a few changes. Here’s what’s happened while I was away. So one of...