Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Maintaining financial balance can be a daunting challenge. Balance is crucial since this provides stability and steadiness. Ultimately, financial balance protects you from falling or even failing financially. These 28 steps will help you achieve…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Each of us have just a handful of non-financial decisions in our lives that become inflection points for our financial future. Where we go to college, who we marry, where we worship, and where we…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Life is full of numbers, ratios, and percentages that have some particular meaning. The financial aspects of life are no exception of course, but some of these numbers bear more weight than others. Here’s a…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to your financial picture, there are many dimensions — emotions being one of them. Our emotions are strongly tied to our financial behavior. Add your spouse into the mix and you’ve got…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes With retirement on the horizon, all the investment tricks and complicated strategies melt away under the heat of just one thing…the need to increase your income to outpace ever-increasing living expenses. If you’re on track…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Investment graphs and performance charts don’t provide the answers; Market forecasts don’t either; Life is what matters. In our work, we listen, guide, and advise clients about life. That’s why what we do matters. Without…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Unfortunately, we sometimes have conversations with prospective clients that we can’t help. If someone just wants to maximize investment returns, we can’t help. Focusing only on maximizing returns is really a fleeting, ephemeral aspiration that…
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Most financial decisions are a battle between the world as it is and the way we want the world to be; between reality and wishful thinking. To avoid letting wishful thinking put you on the…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you make money decisions because of pain? Most of us do, even if this isn’t fully acknowledged. Among the first descriptors in the definition of pain is punishment. People with financial pain feel like…
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Investing should be done not just for good returns but for a particular purpose. That exact purpose varies from person to person but one commonality we all share is our investing lifetime. As I explain in the…
