My Personal Constitution

Roosevelt Island, Washington, DC. January 7, 2014Who I am, in a sentence: I am an enthusiastic individual with an analytic mind continuously searching for the best knowledge to change my life and others’. Mission Statement:I, Kendel Christensen, live to serve, inform, and be expansively useful to my fellowmen. I seek to personally develop and provide […]

Kendel was Born to…

    In the spirit of the New Year, I have dubbed 2014 as “the year of real discovery.” Though I will continually self- and re-evaluate, I am designating this year to more firmly establish some of the questions that keep coming up again and again and, in my mind, I think “Well, I haven’t […]

Our Gift to Him

I love Christmastime. The music on the radio is different, more uplifting.  The whole world is draped in dazzling white (have you stopped to appreciate how snow also seems to muffle all the regular ‘noise of the world’?), and it is the one time of the year where I can greet perfect strangers on the […]

More Quotes!

So in addition to my solid (if simple) main landing page for quotations, I found a few tertiary sites that should find a home somewhere. Namely in this post. So, in addition to  The Quote Garden and Think Exist which I put on my main quotes page, here are some more great places for quotes: Quoteland GoodQuotes Quotations Book […]

Correcting Incorrect Thinking, One Think at a Time

Photo Credit: pbglifestyle.com As I have previously divulged, people who don’t know what they are talking about–and assert that they do–aggravates me on a deep, you-are-personally-upsetting-the-Zen-of-the-universe-and-have-a-moral-obligation-to-stop kind of way. So, in my unflapping quest to slowly right the errors of thinking I encounter around me, I offer the best explanation of why we often use […]

First Seek to Understand Me

People tend to experience me as an energetic, thoughtful, affable person.  Everyone has their quirks and flaws, but on the whole, I’m widely considered as likable. Others, though, experience poignant and acute frustration in their interactions with me. To both groups, I offer this plea: Before you think I’m greater or worse than I am, […]

You Never Know What’s Going On…

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kendel the Investor, Step One

     After years of saying, “Yeah, I’ll do that ‘someday,’”, I finally became an investor. I opened a Roth IRA and invested in the stock market (a lifecycle fund, to be more specific). I did my initial research and found the following: Pretty much everyone should get a Roth (and a 401k, but my […]

Inspiration from Gary Vaynerchuk

My goal to become an entrepreneur recently led me to an opportunity to interview Gary Vaynerchuck.  Gary is an entrepreneur-immigrant from Belarus who has gone from his hugely successful e-commerce business to his own YouTube show, to now focusing his multi-million dollar company, Vaynermedia, on becoming the foremost authority on using social media to build brands. […]

Best Birthday Promotionals

Yes, the rumors are true: I have a birthday. But, as is my eternal preference, even when I am special I prefer to be treated especially special. And my birthday is on a national holiday! Yes, the day the Constitution of the United States was completed and officially signed, was the same as my day […]