The IKEA Effect and Your Financial Plan
If you've ever lived in an apartment in a large city, chances are you had some Ikea furniture rounding out your mismatched accoutrements.
Why I Do Like I Do - My Story
If you are a client or have been to one of my seminars or Financial Wellness training sessions you would have heard this story. It outlines the main reason why I consider myself a Proper Financial Planner
The Moose and Disability Insurance
The year was 1997. Mark Messier had a successful 6-year run with the New York Rangers, adding two more Stanley Cups, a Hart and a Pearson award to his trophy shelf. After the 96-97 season, he was a free agent...
Even Pirates had Disability Insurance
It has been well documented that I read some pretty strange books. A lot of the times, those strange books reference another book and I read that one too. This is the story of one of those obscure books that turned out to be one of the most fascinating reads I've had in a while.
Spending is easy. Knowing what you spent is getting harder
Two things happened in January that so eerily coincided, I needed to write about it. 1) I picked up Dan Ariely's new book, Dollars and Sense, and 2) Amazon opened the first checkout-free store in Seattle called Amazon Go. Let me explain...