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Weekend Reading | Saturday, May 27, 2023 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, May 27, 2023

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk To Yourself (Video) | Can Movies Help You Become a Better Person? | Why We Forget That Most People Are Good | How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty | The 10 Greatest US Investors and the Virtues That Made Them

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, April 15, 2023

How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön | Twelve New Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity | We All Get “Monkey Mind” — and Neuroscience Supports the Buddhist Solution | Negativity Drives Online News Consumption | 5 Ways Investors Can Succeed by Knowing Their Limits | PHOTOS: See the Wildflower 'Superbloom' Happening Across California

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Simple, Basic, Mindful Investing

All successful long-term investors are continuously acting on a plan that is founded on their deeply personal values and goals. They are appropriately allocated, they are broadly diversified, and they rebalance regularly. They are patient and remain mindful of their limitations. No one knows what is coming next.

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If You Want A Retirement Income You Can’t Outlive, Choose Recession Over Inflation Every Time

Most investors get this wrong - they mistakenly believe that market risk is the issue they have to overcome. And, in the attempt to manage for market risk, they worry about the wrong things. Recession is one of those things that, while potentially painful in the short run, resolves itself to become a minor issue in the long run.

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, January 7, 2023 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, January 7, 2023

What Makes Life Meaningful? | Sunday Firesides: Everyone’s Just Trying to Make It in the World | How Emotionally Intelligent People Turn Frustration and Stress Into Fulfillment and Achievement | The Best Way to Deal with Dissatisfaction (It’s Not What You Think) | How To Want Less

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, December 24, 2022

Life Is Hard. And That’s Good | Surrendering Isn’t Giving Up: Why We Need to Accept What’s Happened | The Psychology of Prestige: Why We Play the Social Status Game | Overcoming the Myth of Separateness | 6 Conversations About Money to Have With Your Family Over the Holidays

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Podcast: Earn & Invest | Acting vs Reacting - Are You Mindful About Money? with Jonathan DeYoe Thumbnail

Podcast: Earn & Invest | Acting vs Reacting - Are You Mindful About Money? with Jonathan DeYoe

Doc G of the Earn & Invest Podcasts talks with Jonathan DeYoe of Mindful Money about how to be thoughtful about what our financial framework is meant to support. Jonathan takes us through his pillars of happiness and how to use them to create a financial plan that serves our unique goals in life.

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60/40 Portfolio Demise Talk Is Premature

To borrow from Churchill, “The balanced (stock/bond) portfolio is the worst form of investing known to man, except for all the other forms.” Those people who are suggesting – based on its immediate past 1-year performance – that the 60/40 portfolio is dead are probably trying to sell something that isn’t a balanced stock/bond portfolio.

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Want To Increase Your Investing Confidence? Know What You Own

For me, worrying isn’t just a sense of anxiety. It is a push to learn more. After I did some research and learned a little bit about how earthquakes work, I wasn’t worried about them anymore (or, at least, I worried less). Earthquakes and the fear of earthquakes are a pretty good stand-in for “market volatility.”

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, November 5, 2022 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, November 5, 2022

How to Get Comfortable With Uncertainty and Change | There is No Timeline to Grief | Why Nancy Pelosi Sabotaged Wildly Popular Bipartisan Legislation | Retirement Can Mean a Loss of Identity — How to Bring Happiness to Your Next Act | Tailoring Your Portfolio When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

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This Is What It Feels Like To Buy Low

The great companies of the US and the World are on sale. That sale may (or may not) get better. If it does get better, it won’t get that much better. There will be some point in the not-too-distant future where we look back at today – the September retest of the June low – and say, “I wish I would have invested then.”

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, August 27, 2022 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, August 27, 2022

Neuroscientist: How Caffeine Works and What It Does to Your Body (Video) | Closing Down the Billionaire Factory | Newfound Brain Switch Labels Experiences as Good or Bad | The Uphill Battle Women Still Face in High Finance | Three Things That Stop Us Talking About Money Worries

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Weekend Reading | Saturday, August 6, 2022 Thumbnail

Weekend Reading | Saturday, August 6, 2022

On Sarcasm | Misinformation Is Here To Stay (And That’s OK) | A Flaw in Human Judgment: How Making Decisions Isn’t As Objective As You Think | The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements | What Do You Spend Money On? Lessons From Our Clients About Spending that Brings True Joy

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3 Melt-Up Triggers & 2 Bear Market Positives

There is a lot of negative news out there right now. Inflation is the worst it has been in 4 decades, there may be a recession around the corner, supply chains are still problematic. When will it end? I don’t know, but I’d be careful about getting overly swept up in it.

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