Inspiration

ARE YOU SAVING FOR RETIREMENT SO YOU CAN VISIT SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND BREATHTAKING PLACES IN THE WORLD?  Take a few minutes and check them out. Pretty amazing aren’t they? [...]

MANY DAYS, MY WORK INVOLVES INTERACTING WITH EMPLOYEES AT THEIR WORKPLACE.  As an adviser to employer-based retirement plans, I help people enroll in their plan and then provide ongoing guidance [...]

Many of the most successful retirement plan stories are just regular people who have done the right things throughout their life.  They are not celebrities and don’t lead glamorous [...]

IS THIS AN INTERESTING OR PROVOCATIVE QUESTION? When do people concede their hopes for the future? How does it happen?  Certainly how a retiree, or an aging person, views their future will have a [...]

DO YOU HAVE A PLAN TO BE HAPPY LATER IN LIFE?  (For retirement, that is).  Is your idea to get enough money and then you’re out the door?  HOLD ON A MOMENT.  TAKE A DEEP BREATH.  STOP FOR A [...]

BECAUSE SHE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE THE VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND!  While we don’t normally talk much business, she recently sent me a link to a story referencing this [...]

IT WOULDN’T KILL YOU TO SACRIFICE TWO HOURS A YEAR, WOULD IT?  What would that amount to?  One movie?  A couple of TV shows?  Some useless time surfing the web? Watching your local sports [...]

A few months back I had the chance to meet the new Executive Director at one of my clients, a small trade association in St Paul MN.  It was a brief encounter – maybe 30 to 40 seconds. [...]

If you pay attention to any media at all, it is hard to get through the day without hearing of a new survey or statistic about our collective health, eating habits, retirement preparations, [...]

Do you do business with a friend?  In what capacity?  How is that working out?  Has it complicated your personal and professional life?  Do you regret the whole situation?  For some people this [...]