Monday, March 30, 2015
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Repurposed
I found a worthwhile purpose for this blog--at least until I can figure out how to post my own essays without wading through a morass of regulations. From now until some other time, I will post to this blog a few of my favorite things. And perhaps a few comments on them that are in no way to ever be construed as business-related, financial advice of any variety, or recommendations of any sort.
"Favorite Things" might include websites that I find enthralling, books that I treasure, videos (I'm a sucker for all of those touching, hilarious, or creative videos you all share on facebook), silver-white winters that melt into springs, works of fine art, articles and essays that stimulated my intellect, or any number of other link-able, post-able items--all created by other people, and thoroughly enjoyed by me.
Think of this blog as a cyber-museum for sharing collections of things I hope you will appreciate nearly as much as I do. Sort of a "Pay It Forward" purpose, albeit with no attempt at regularity.
And in keeping with the re-purposing of my blog, here is my new favorite "Pay It Forward" video of all time. I love how whoever made this pieced a series of insurance company commercials together and laid them over a Noah and the Whale track. It's way better (and less confusing) than I just made it sound.
"Favorite Things" might include websites that I find enthralling, books that I treasure, videos (I'm a sucker for all of those touching, hilarious, or creative videos you all share on facebook), silver-white winters that melt into springs, works of fine art, articles and essays that stimulated my intellect, or any number of other link-able, post-able items--all created by other people, and thoroughly enjoyed by me.
Think of this blog as a cyber-museum for sharing collections of things I hope you will appreciate nearly as much as I do. Sort of a "Pay It Forward" purpose, albeit with no attempt at regularity.
And in keeping with the re-purposing of my blog, here is my new favorite "Pay It Forward" video of all time. I love how whoever made this pieced a series of insurance company commercials together and laid them over a Noah and the Whale track. It's way better (and less confusing) than I just made it sound.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Four Year Update
So I wrote my previous (and first-ever) blog post when another President was in the White House, I had two fewer children, I lived in a different home, and my career was in its infancy. Not exactly the blogging consistency I was aiming for.
What I hoped would be a (systematically) creative outlet for me has turned out to be a protracted "stay tuned" signal. This is not likely to change any time soon, but rather than just yank this blog off of the Web entirely, I will leave it as an open door that I may someday walk through.
Before the resounding dead air resumes, I do owe you some kind of explanation for the last four years, because I actually have an excuse--a good excuse, surprisingly. Quite simply, my career as an independent financial adviser comes with a host of licenses and an even greater host of regulations to follow. Many of those regulations tell me what I can and cannot say in print or online, particularly on static pages that could be considered "advertising." In fact my LinkedIn and FaceBook profile pages are regulated as advertising, whether I mention my profession or not. So might a blog or a personal website I control. And frankly, I don't have the time or inclination to run every blog post or profile update through my compliance department.
So in case compliance ever finds this post, this is for them:
Jason E. Palmer, Financial Advisor
One Financial Advisors, Inc
6995 S. Union Park Center, Suite 190
Midvale, UT 84047
801-676-1500
jpalmer@ofadv.com
What I hoped would be a (systematically) creative outlet for me has turned out to be a protracted "stay tuned" signal. This is not likely to change any time soon, but rather than just yank this blog off of the Web entirely, I will leave it as an open door that I may someday walk through.
Before the resounding dead air resumes, I do owe you some kind of explanation for the last four years, because I actually have an excuse--a good excuse, surprisingly. Quite simply, my career as an independent financial adviser comes with a host of licenses and an even greater host of regulations to follow. Many of those regulations tell me what I can and cannot say in print or online, particularly on static pages that could be considered "advertising." In fact my LinkedIn and FaceBook profile pages are regulated as advertising, whether I mention my profession or not. So might a blog or a personal website I control. And frankly, I don't have the time or inclination to run every blog post or profile update through my compliance department.
So in case compliance ever finds this post, this is for them:
Jason E. Palmer, Financial Advisor
One Financial Advisors, Inc
6995 S. Union Park Center, Suite 190
Midvale, UT 84047
801-676-1500
jpalmer@ofadv.com
Registered Representative of and securities and
Investment Advisory services offered through OneAmerica Securities, Inc., Member
FINRA,SIPC. One Financial Advisors, Inc is not an affiliate of AUL or
OneAmerica Securities, Inc. and is not a BrokerDealer or Registered Investment
Advisor.
Notice Regarding
Disclosure: Information contained herein is not guaranteed nor
is intended as a solicitation or offer to purchase or sell securities mentioned
herein. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Notice Regarding Privacy:
OFA and OneAmerica Securities, Inc. reserve
the right to monitor and review the content of all web communications sent
or received.
See you in another few years.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Ideas Under Construction
I love writing. My family can attest to the prolific nature of my weekly emails, and I do a fair amount of freelance editing and writing every week. I have long heard a nagging voice in my head enticing me to start a blog where I can write away to my heart's content on all manner of subjects. One thing has restrained me in the past: I hate keeping up with all of the postings. I don't like sorting through posts and comments on other people's blogs and the thought of having to monitor my own sets my teeth to "tightly clenched in disdain" mode.
See, my right brain (the half of me that won out in college and resulted in a B.A. in Humanities) happens to be plagued by left-brain tendencies toward order and simplicity that sometimes border on obsessive. In my ideal world everything makes sense and stays clean and neatly organized until you decide to creatively make messes on purpose. Blogs always seem to get messy haphazardly, growing and morphing organically. They are like essays with great initial theses that subsequently find themselves hijacked by literary terrorists. The comments and posts and collections and links fill the blog like so much clutter, clouding the blog's purpose and keeping it from ever reaching a conclusion.
Not that I mean to compare the friends and family who would most likely read and comment here to terrorists...but certainly a few inane and profane readers will somehow find my blog out here on this vast World Wide Web and mess it up. That fear lurks in the back of my holistically-inclined mind and has up til now kept me out of the blogosphere.
It's time to set aside such concerns and face the chaos of the Internet with my keyboard at the ready. I'm taking the first step: consider this post the start of my official blogging career. Will blogging one day be part of my vocation in life? Will it be a creative outlet that adds value to the Net? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for future ideas to be born here.
See, my right brain (the half of me that won out in college and resulted in a B.A. in Humanities) happens to be plagued by left-brain tendencies toward order and simplicity that sometimes border on obsessive. In my ideal world everything makes sense and stays clean and neatly organized until you decide to creatively make messes on purpose. Blogs always seem to get messy haphazardly, growing and morphing organically. They are like essays with great initial theses that subsequently find themselves hijacked by literary terrorists. The comments and posts and collections and links fill the blog like so much clutter, clouding the blog's purpose and keeping it from ever reaching a conclusion.
Not that I mean to compare the friends and family who would most likely read and comment here to terrorists...but certainly a few inane and profane readers will somehow find my blog out here on this vast World Wide Web and mess it up. That fear lurks in the back of my holistically-inclined mind and has up til now kept me out of the blogosphere.
It's time to set aside such concerns and face the chaos of the Internet with my keyboard at the ready. I'm taking the first step: consider this post the start of my official blogging career. Will blogging one day be part of my vocation in life? Will it be a creative outlet that adds value to the Net? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for future ideas to be born here.
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