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Winning the Long Game of Wealth

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”   ~ Benjamin Disraeli The Myth of Overnight Success When it comes to "making it," the media loves to report on overnight successes, lottery winners, and tech companies that seem to come from nowhere to capture ...

The Impact of Financial Mistakes

“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.” —Shelby Foote Owning Up To Financial Blunders Have you ever made a big financial mistake? You’re not alone. According to a ...

The Health and Wealth Connection

“The greatest wealth is health.” -Virgil January is a popular time to make health-related resolutions and set goals to lose weight, exercise, or give up unhealthy habits. While people rarely make these resolutions for financial reasons, having a healthy body can actually lead to a bigger bank account! ...

The Surprising Research About Money and Happiness

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." ~ Spike Milligan Are people who make more money happier? What about people who save more? Can people be happy with very little? And how do your spending habits impact our satisfaction? ...

Financial Self-Reliance: Building Bullet-Proof Wealth

Economic self-reliance: the ability of a person, place or nation to endure successfully without additional financial support from government or other agencies. From earthquakes in Nepal, tsunamis in Indonesia hurricanes in the South, mudslides in Northwest, and drought in Africa (and now, California), it doesn’t take a weather report to ...

Can Gratitude Raise Your Net Worth!?

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”  – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth The Emotion that Helps us Make Better Financial Choices! Gratitude is an important element to experience contentment and inner wealth. But does it have a positive impact on our ...

Wall Street Hopes You Never Ask This!

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” – Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow Financial and political power congregates on Wall Street… epicentre of the American financial universe, and the subject of many a movie about the ruthless and the rich. But to ...

Risk Assessment Questionnaire

How Risky Is That Risk Assessment Questionnaire? “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”  -Paul Samuelson   If you’ve ever walked into a financial planner’s office or a brokerage firm, chances are you were ...

Dartboard Investments: Contests, Monkeys, and a Random Market

"A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.” - Burton Malkiel Can the Stock Market Be Predicted? Back in 1973, Princeton Economist Burton Malkiel published the first edition of A Random Walk ...