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Financial Planning: Are you Driven by Short Term Cost or Long Term Value? Thumbnail

Financial Planning: Are you Driven by Short Term Cost or Long Term Value?

There's a difference between HOPING that you will become financially independent and doing what it takes to get there. In my experience in working with my personal CPA and estate attorney, I've come to realize that cost is only a factor in the absence of value. In those relationships, where I'm the client, if I feel I'm getting the value that I want, I am HAPPY to pay these professionals their keep. They are doing work I can't do, don't want to do, and are going above and beyond to take care of me? Yup, I'm a happy camper.

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Does Your Family Have Enough [Term] Life Insurance? Thumbnail

Does Your Family Have Enough [Term] Life Insurance?

There is one gap in plans I see relentlessly and repeatedly from our planning clients. Even those clients that are doing everything else right and have a 95%+ chance of long term plan success... Here it goes: The one planning deficiency that consistently comes up with our young professional high income earning clients (30-49 years old and making north of $250k as a household) is... They do not have enough term life insurance.

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Short Term Volatility or Long Term Risk: Which do You want? (It is the only question that matters right now) Thumbnail

Short Term Volatility or Long Term Risk: Which do You want? (It is the only question that matters right now)

Understanding the difference between volatility and risk is the single most important idea for us young people to understand as the stock market (and the economy) are going crazy all around us. The market right now is EXTREMELY volatile...I'm speaking with clients all day and believe me, it's scary out there. We all just need to hold onto one truth: market volatility is normal and so are market corrections! Understanding that nothing has changed for you as a long term investor will give you the fortitude and the faith to keep holding on...which is the single best decision you can make for your financial future right now.

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Why is it Inevitable for the Stock Market to go up Over Time?  Thumbnail

Why is it Inevitable for the Stock Market to go up Over Time?

I can't think of a better, more meaningful time to appreciate the inevitable upward trajectory of the stock market (and the economy at large) than right now...when it all looks so bleak!! Knowing these truths, and acting upon them, when everything around us seems to be crumbling will give us the power and conviction to get through it not just this time around...but every time after this too! The next few months are going to suck. Companies will be temporarily thrown off their game. The economy will lag. And then all of a sudden, they won't. They'll adapt. The economy will rebound. And the world will advance beyond this. it is the only way. There is nothing on Earth I'm more confident in.

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