A lot of general money advice focuses on the fundamentals. There’s no shortage of tips out there that promise to teach you how to save, budget, spend less, and maybe even make more. This advice is important, and shouldn’t be dismissed. These are like the guardrails of a great financial strategy. You can’t reach major…
Feel Financially Stuck? Here’s Why—and How to Move Forward
As financial planners, we hear all sorts of reasons about why people’s finances are the way they are… especially when they seem financially stuck. People always have a reason, an explanation, or a story. It’s only natural: we need to assign meaning to what happens in our lives. The thing is, when things go our…
How to Better Manage Money with Just Two Simple Rules of Thumb
Personal finance doesn’t need to be overly complicated. Yes, the complexity in your financial life will increase as you build assets and grow wealth—but don’t confuse complex for overly elaborate and impossible to understand. At the end of the day, most of what it takes to reach (and maintain) financial success comes down to some…
Life After Debt: What’s Next After Debt Freedom
One core tenant of building wealth is to gain control over your cash flow. By keeping your expenses in check while growing your income, you create financial power—because that gap between your income and expenses allows you to generate excess cash. If you have debt, that excess is likely going toward repaying your balances right…
How to Be Financially Successful: 3 Things Wealthy People Do Differently Than Everyone Else
Ever wonder what it really takes to become wealthy and financially successful? Assuming you don’t have a very rich relative who leaves you a lot of cash or you’re not on track to be the next Silicon Valley tech startup wunderkind, then you’re probably taking the same path most of the rest of us take:…
Are You Making These 5 Mistakes with Stock Options?
Stock options are a type of equity compensation, which is a way for employers to reward key employees beyond the usual paycheck. Most equity comp packages can provide a great opportunity to build wealth, but managing that well requires advanced planning. If you want to avoid making big mistakes with stock options, there are specific…
The 3-Step Process to Saving 40 Percent of Income
Prefer to listen rather than read? Pair this post with Episode 25 of the Beyond Finances podcast, where we talk about the process of saving 40 percent of income and the steps to take to make that happen. Do you know how much money you save right now? And perhaps more importantly… do you know…
Wealth Management Is an Infinite Game. Are You a Good Player?
Despite the recent popularity of people playing day trader, trading stocks using gamified apps designed to hook your attention and keep you engaged is a risky proposition. Playing on trading apps is a great way to gamble while casinos operate in limited capacity due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but it’s a poor strategy for…
Changing Your Investment Strategy Ahead of an Election… and Other Things NOT to Do
Unless you’ve been living on Pluto for the last few months, you know there’s a big election just weeks away in the U.S. And investors want to know: what does the outcome of that election that mean for the economy? Perhaps more importantly, what does it mean for your investment portfolio? Should you think about…
Have Equity Comp? Make Sure It Doesn’t Put Your Wealth at Risk
A version of this article was originally written for and published on Kiplinger. Equity compensation can be an extremely useful tool when it comes to building wealth. And just like any other tool you may use, you can leverage your equity comp to build something great — in this case, significant wealth — or, you…
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