You Can Do Anything, But Not Everything Learn how a financial planner helps you with trade-offs and prioritizing your most treasured values and dreams. The advisor does NOT enable an “everything” version of your life. Optimizing Your Values The advisor helps you optimize your values through your money decisions. Thank You Thank you for watching…

Everything is Transitory Last year we were told that inflation was transitory. This year we learn that it is more persistent. And now investors have entered a bear market. Investors may be wondering how transitory or persistent this bear market may be. I wish we knew, but those kinds of things are only known after…

What’s the Value of a Financial Thinking Partner? We all process “Value” differently. Each person thinks differently. Are you more interested in “Tangible” dollar value of financial advice? Tangible or Intangible? Or are you more interested in the “Intangible” value of financial advice? Regardless of your approach, this is a fun topic I love discussing.…

The Virtue of Strategic Ignorance Strategic ignorance is a positive quality. It is choosing to ignore information that is detrimental to our well-being, and this sometimes includes market information For example, let’s say at the end of September 2021 you hibernated, or put your head in the sand. You chose to not pay attention to…

Chasing Returns A favorite (and costly) pastime of investors is to invest in assets that have recently done well. This happens in good times as investors seek better returns, and they happen in bad times as low-yielding investments such as cash are more attractive than money-losing stocks. In other words, investors chase returns. It Feels…

Why does the stock market go up? In this video I’m providing a brief review of Brian Feroldi’s, “Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?”. Check it out! Brian explains terms like “Dow Jones”, “What is the S&P 500?”, and of course, answers the question, “Why does the stock market go up?!” Thank You Thank…

The Upside of Bear Markets Bear markets, like large grizzly bears, are often associated with fear and running for safety. These feelings are often exacerbated by fateful headlines with dramatic wording. But for long-term investors, bear markets don’t have to be scary. They can have several benefits. Benefits of Bear Markets First, they produce negative…

If Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, What Does? For centuries mankind has been searching for happiness. Regardless of culture, social status, or beliefs it seems that we are all connected by our desire to be happy. What makes someone happy and how much happiness we feel may be subjective. But there are a few fundamental principles that…

20 Craziest Investing Facts Ever In this video, learn two of the 20 Craziest Investing Facts Ever, from “The Irrelevant Investor” blog post of the same name. Here’s the link to Michael Batnick’s article on his blog, “The Twenty Craziest Investing Facts Ever”: https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2019/03/13/the-twenty-craziest-investing-facts-ever/ Thank You Thank you for watching and I hope you have…

Attention Allocation You may be familiar with the term “asset allocation”, which is how we divide up our assets (stocks, bonds, cash etc.). Attention allocation is how we divide up our attention. Paradox of Abundance The paradox of abundance states that there is a tradeoff between quantity and quality. The greater the quantity of a…