Financial Nihilism – don’t do it

“Thereโ€™s no point in saving for the future because weโ€™re going to have war, revolution, and itโ€™s all going to come to a violent end.” Iโ€™ve also heard that young people arenโ€™t saving for retirement either (because โ€œthere is noโ€ฆ

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Relationships matter more than money

Do You See It?

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ โ€” ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜†, ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ, ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ, ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€, ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฐ. โ€” ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€. โ€œGood relationships are significant enough that if we had to take all eighty-four years of the Harvardโ€ฆ

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๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜†?

What do you do with your money?

If your answer is โ€œ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ.โ€Okay, so why try so hard to earn lots more money? If your answer is โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก.โ€Okay, so once you make money, hanging on to money is just as hard as making it. Youโ€ฆ

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This hinders your happiness

This one was a big problem for me in the past โ€ฆ That tiny graph shows that no matter where our current salary is ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜†/๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ. We donโ€™t realizeโ€ฆ

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What is Wealth to You?

What do you do with your money?

Managing Money is easy.Managing Wealth isnโ€™t. We quantify whatโ€™s easily countable, not what matters most. Wealth isnโ€™t as easily defined. But itโ€™s quite impossible to manage something we havenโ€™t defined for ourselves. ๐ˆ ๐š๐ฆ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ?โ€ฆ

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