More for Your Money
To wrap up our Grammy week tribute to money and music here is one of my personal favorites. Keb’ Mo’ presents a playful and sarcastic tune to get us to think about the things we give up for Mo Money. Well I needed a part for my washing machine They picked up the call in […]
Money
No chance of leaving Pink Floyd out of the music and money conversation. Released in March of 1973 on the “Dark Side of the Moon” album, Money is a bit of a criticism of conspicuous consumption. Money, get away Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K. Money, it’s a gas Grab that […]
Taxman
Continuing our Grammy week of musical financial planning. Taxes have always been a vexing problem, reaching back to 1966 we hear the Beatles complaining about the taxman. Sorry no Beatles video, but we did find George Harrison. If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat […]
Grammy’s Week – Take This Job and Shove It
The Grammy Awards are approaching and in anticipation the rest of the week our posts will be to relate a few songs to financial planning ideas. We hope to have some fun with this. In 1977 Johnny Paycheck had a hit with Take This Job and Shove It. Sadly, it is about a man who […]
Real and Feel
Back when Tiger Woods worked with Butch Harmon and was winning nearly every tournament he entered, Tiger and Butch would talk a lot about how real and feel were two different things in his golf swing. Maybe something felt right, but it did not result in a great golf stroke. That is often the same […]
Sooner or Later?
If you think risk is the chance your investment dollar will go down today, then I challenge you to ask the question “When should I take on risk?” If you choose to put your money in a CD or savings account, you avoid the risk of any fluctuation of the principle. You do have the […]
Faith and Patience
In Lake Wobegon “All the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average” Sadly, we know only 49% of the children can be above average or the median to be precise. It’s true of children and it’s true of investors. If you believe brains are what is […]
It’s a Marathon
Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world when it comes to sprinting. The gun fires and Bolt is off and in less than 10 seconds Usain has crossed the finish line. Unlike the mad dash speed of a sprinter, reaching you financial goals is more like running in a marathon where pacing yourself […]
“Hell, yes!” or “No”
Greg McKeown, author of the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less conducted a session at a NAPFA conference in San Diego last spring and the one thing that stuck in my head was the advice that if the answer to the question isn’t “Hell, yes!” then the answer should be “No”. While Greg was […]
Free Money
Posted by Bryan Taylor Everyone wants free money but I know too many of my peers who don’t care enough about their money to get it. Yes, it takes time, effort, extensive budgeting- and most importantly discipline, but if you are in control of your money you can truly make it work for you- even […]
