If someone you care about is a raving fan of a ‘guru’ – and waits upon their guru’s every word – for life planning advice – please share this with them. There really are better roads to self-improvement.
Warning: This is a four-year-old post which I need to update, esp. with new State Pension numbers. The broad messages, however, remain valid. So, what is the true cost of a pension? It sounds like a simple question, doesn’t it? But it’s seemingly impossible for some financial journalists to get to the bottom of it – as…
If you’re on a search for meaning in your life, there can surely be no better place to start than by reading the ideas of Viktor Frankl – in his book ‘Man’s search for meaning’
In this extract from Chapter 1 of my book, ‘Who misleads YOU about money?’ we’ll learn how we’re tricked into spending all our money today. This matters because the result is our failure to save for our big, long term financial life goals – for ourselves and our loved ones.
To achieve more,of whatever we strive for, it sure helps if we’re feeling good about it. And yet we can’t feel good all the time – so how do we deal with that?
In this second in a series of Insights on writing (for financial advisers and product providers), I’ll explore how you can achieve both of Franklin’s goals by writing just one series of articles. Also, for anyone happy to forego the ‘fame’ opportunity, I’ll look at the minimum goals you’ll want to set for your client-facing…