This blog is the second of a 10-part series which covers everything you need to know to get started on your path to financial freedom: 1. The First Step in Any Financial Plan is NOT What You Think. We Start by Knowing What is Worth Seeking. 2. Developing Your Vision of a Perfect Life 3. Adopt a

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web What Makes Life Meaningful?   Which country shares your values? Turns out, I don’t align with any country on the list. My list starts with Family, Health, Friends… Sunday Firesides: Everyone’s Just Trying to Make It in the World   Everyone deserves a little grace… especially when

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This blog is the first of a 10-part series which covers everything you need to know to get started on your path to financial freedom: 1. The First Step in Any Financial Plan is NOT What You Think. We Start by Knowing What is Worth Seeking. 2. Developing Your Vision of a Perfect Life 3.

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Pain is Part of the Process   It has been too long since my friend Bob has written a piece… and he has returned with a doozie! History Is In the Making   The dates we celebrate and teach skew our sense of what is important. “Reality”

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As I wrote this in the run-up to the holiday season, markets seemed to be on the mend from the bear that started January 3rd, the air was coming out of the inflation balloon, and talk of recession probabilities was the new crisis du jour (it ALWAYS has to be something). The biggest surprise to

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Life Is Hard. And That’s Good   We cannot extinguish grief, but maybe we can do grief better? Surrendering Isn’t Giving Up: Why We Need to Accept What’s Happened   The first step in any pursuit is accepting what has come before. The Psychology of Prestige: Why

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In early December, I was on a panel entitled Sustaining, Enduring and Thriving Through Crisis at the 2022 Market Counsel Summit. Diana Britton, managing editor of WealthManagement.com, convened us. My fellow panelists were Gavin Spitzner, president of Wealth Consulting Partners, John Hyland, a managing director with Private Advisor Group, and Marc Nichols, a product director

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Get Rich Without Working: The Dark Fantasy of Today   Anything that suggests “The easy path to X” is bullshit. Google’s Former Happiness Guru Developed a Three-Second Brain Exercise for Finding Joy   Enduring happiness begins by noticing the thin slices of joy happening all the time.

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Six New Studies That Can Help You Rediscover Gratitude   All 6 of course, but especially #5. If you learn to express gratitude, you are less likely to find yourself wishing you had expressed it. Happy Talk   Your investments are benefited by remembering your honest optimism.

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