After a successful career in film, television, and journalism in Washington, DC, Bill made a career change, becoming a successful financial advisor in the Midwest. In this new role, he tried using this then-new thing called email to keep in touch with his widespread staff. To get them to regularly check their mail, he started sending out a "Thought for the Day." And it worked even better than he expected. Clients learned about the daily email and asked to be included on the list, and it just kept growing. Now, more than twenty years and thousands of "thoughts" later, he's making these missives available in this series of books.