Personal Stories & Updates

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA® Structure Determines Performance Our daughter Emma loves to build puzzles. Initially she would find random pieces and try to put them together. Then she progressed to looking at this picture and finding the ones that are similar had the same colors. Eventually she got around to learning to find those corner pieces that edgings and then building structure.…

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA® Feel Versus Real Sometimes there’s a difference between what we think we’re doing and what we actually are.  See, I love the game of golf and recently I took a little camera like this, went outside, set it up behind myself and hit record.  I took some swings and when I went…

MICHELLE SMALENBERGER, CFP® Speed Reading Versus Speed Understanding   Do you remember hearing stories or reading books when you were a kid. Someone was trying to teach you something and maybe there was a lesson in those stories they were trying to get you to understand.    Well one of these that was very popular…

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA® [Video] Hits & Misses, Goals In Your Life The last time we had family over, we pulled out some old games we had saved when we were kids.  One in particular is Battleship. It is a really fun game where you and your opponent try to find and sink each other’s five…

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA® I’ve had this on my keychain for years. It’s a carabiner. It’s what mountain climbers, zipliners use to repel and go up and climb. It hasn’t really meant anything to me until this past weekend. You see I went away with my daughter, Emma. We went to a daddy daughter retreat up…