Do you know what your number is? I sound like an ad for the Sleep Number mattress, but what I mean is—do you know how much you need to accomplish your goals? Retirement, college funding, the flexibility to travel, etc.? In my experience, many have this number in their head—“I just need $1 mill...
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I frequently try to hammer home the point that market timing and stock selection don’t work over the long-term. See past blog posts here, here, and here. The majority of positive market returns come in short bursts… Figure 1: Performance of the S&P 500 Index from 1990-2019 and in a sma...
How can such a small, three-lettered word elicit such existential confusion, yet be one of the most important questions you ask yourself? That word, of course, is “why.” We’re accustomed to asking others this question, but when was the last time you asked yourself “Why?”...
There’s plenty of versions of the old axiom that “we must live in the present” and I have always found comfort and joy in that simplicity, even if I am guilty of not always adhering to the philosophy. But the comfort and joy I experience “living in the present” is dependent on it being a [...
Warren Buffet is the greatest investor of our lifetime, and he is far more than that. The man, who turned 90 on Sunday, August 30, is a leader, mentor, philanthropist, and he is respected all over the world and across cultures. Despite his advanced age, Uncle Warren is still, and always will be, in ...
I went back and forth on the following opening and how best to phrase it: Believe it or not, we’re only about 75 days away from the election, or… Somehow, we still have 75 loooong days until the election. I’ll let you choose which one fits your current mood better. Nevertheless, the election i...
The first time my triathlon coach saw me swim, he wasn’t very optimistic. “You look like an electrocuted frog,” he said. Obviously I had some work to do. But that was okay, because I had a plan. In 1999 at the start of my professional triathlon career, I set a goal. Within five years, I [&hell...
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