By Trent Hamm

When I think about the long run, I’m usually thinking about what I would call “retirement.” It’s a state I hope to reach in my fifties or sixties or so where I can spend my time working on projects that may or may not result in any sort of financial gain, but simply projects that I can enjoy. Almost every thought about the “long term” in my life leads to that point.

I asked my mother a few days ago about what she considered to be the “long term.” She basically pointed to a point about ten or fifteen years down the road when my children are graduating high school.

I asked my oldest son what he thought about the future and what he thought of as the biggest thing that would happen in his life. He thought about it and he said... More...