Mindful Money Blog

Where the employment recovery from the Great Recession was long and slow, the recovery from the Pandemic looks to be surprisingly fast.

Financial decisions often become more complex as we get older. Being financially literate can help – and so can understanding the factors that may affect decision making as we age.

It seems that knowing what to do -- and doing what we know we should do -- are two entirely different things. We know we should learn more, save more, have an emergency fund, but we don't. Perhaps the more important hurdle to overcome is this “knowing-doing” gap.

Meme stocks, by definition, are NOT investments - they are speculations. One will either double (or more) one’s money - if you get out in time and don’t succumb to your own greed - or lose it all (or more) in too short a period of time to qualify as an “investing” time-horizon.

Meet David Glotzer, a Mindful Money financial advisor. In this interview, David talks about financial planning and his experience at Mindful Money.

For context – We’ve been here before. This article is itself a refresh from an article I wrote on this topic in 2014 – many percentage points below where we sit today.

Meet Jonathan DeYoe, Mindful Money Founder. In this interview, Jonathan talks about financial planning and the importance of being mindful in decisions around money.

In his 2021 Forecasts Event (held January 25, 2021), Jonathan K. DeYoe discusses the global markets and economies in light of Covid-19 other current events and offers an explanation of where we might be going.

The narratives and moralizing about GameStop (on both sides) belies a serious lack of knowledge about how markets work, and ignores a whole swath of people who will be hurt by this.

Meet Scott Jacobs, a wealth advisor at Mindful Money. In this interview, Scott talks about financial planning and his experience at Mindful Money.

Meet Paul Rubin, a financial planner at Mindful Money. In this interview, Paul talks about what mindfulness means to him and his experience at Mindful Money.

Once you have a sound investment plan, one of the most dangerous questions you can ask yourself is, “Should I change my investing strategy, because _____?”

Travis Chappell of the Build Your Network Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe on How Money and Mindfulness Work Together.

As humans, our instincts propel us to pile into things when they are going great and run from them when they are not. This is the exact opposite of what should be done when you are investing for retirement income. Yet, we see the same misguided behavior over and over again…

The financial industry is dominated by a “beat-the-market” attitude that infects everyone, but is ineffective. Being mindful will lead to far better investment experiences and outcomes and less financial anxiety.

Jonathan DeYoe has been a financial advisor in the SF Bay Area for over 20 years. He’s had a front-row seat to an unprecedented explosion of wealth. Here are his 10 best pieces of money advice.

In this interview we talked about why Mindful Money focuses on goal-focused and planning-driven decisions, why you can’t add more happiness with more money, and how mindfulness helps us to accept without judgment and keep us on track with our financial goals.

The coronavirus is still very much with us, as is much of the economic dislocation occasioned by the virus and accompanying lockdowns. We are closing in rapidly on a number of vaccines. But it may be quite some time before most of us will have access to them, and there will inevitably be frustration in the process.

What if all you had to do was surrender to the fact that you can’t control everything? What if this one small mindset shift allowed you to stop worrying so much about money?

Once you realize that losing money in the stock market isn’t a real risk, then you can begin to generate long-lasting wealth. We all need retirement income that will keep pace with our rising cost of living and last as long as we last.