motivation

By Jamie Stolz, CFP®

My son is 3 years old—an age that can be one giant test of patience for any parent. At the moment, my biggest parenting challenge is grocery shopping. Why? My son is absolutely obsessed with pushing the grocery cart through the store… without my help. For a child who can barely reach the cart handle, this can make shopping adventurous at best, and, at worst, downright dangerous if Mom isn’t paying attention!

Today, your daughter/ son is just little. Taking their first steps, saying their first words. Next, they’re learning how to ride a bike without training wheels, and then before you know it, they’ll be getting their first job, opening their first checking account, going off to college, and then getting tossed into the real world. 

In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, bestselling author Daniel Pink presents some of the most compelling and useful research in the field of in human motivation. One section, “The Good Life,” is particularly enlightening in regard to how we as individuals establish and pursue our life goals. Pink makes the point, and science confirms, “Satisfaction depends not merely on having goals, but on having the right goals.”

Qualified Charitable Distributions.  The law that allows one to make a contribution to a charity from their IRA if they are over 70 ½ has been around awhile.  It was one of those laws that would lapse and then get reinstated.  With the passing of the PATH Act of 2015, it is now permanent.

10 Insights From The Wealthy You Can Apply To Your Money

I’m sure most of you have heard of Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the famous book ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’.  One of his points that resonate with me is this: “The poor and middle class work hard for their money.

As of the time of writing this article (3:45 PM PST on 11/27/2018), the quoted price on bitcoin is $3,782 from www.coindesk.com/price.

As we age, the odds of incurring an injury or major illness that will prevent us from performing simple daily functions increase substantially. Today, one in three people over the age of 65 will require assisted care of some sort. Past age 75 the odds increase to where one in two will need nursing care.

With more than 95% of American workers currently covered by Social Security, there are some things about this massive retirement program that you should probably know.