“Keeping up with the Joneses” is a popular idiom in many parts of the world that has been used to compare one’s accumulation of material goods with their neighbors.
Unlike most of my other blog posts, I was having a difficult time figuring out a way of making this post on why it is important to think win win relatable, memorable, and entertaining.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Byron Wien, he is an American investor and vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners.
I am going to start this blog post by taking you back to a weekend back in 2010 when my sister and her husband paid a visit to South Florida to visit yours truly. I believe by that time they were married and no longer living in sin.
You may be familiar with the ‘Double a Penny’ analogy. It goes as follows, would you rather take $1 million dollars now or take a penny and double it every day for 30 days? Most people would take the $1 million and be done with it.