Stanford’s Marshmallow Experiment In the ‘60’s Stanford conducted a test with 4 and 5-year kids, wherein they gave each child a marshmallow with these instructions… “this marshmallow is for you,…
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We are often asked, “what’s the value of financial planning?” Fair enough question, and similar to others which could be asked in other areas of life: What’s the value of…
Retirement and investment terms can be confusing; their names rarely give an accurate description of what they are, and most of our friends and neighbors will offer differing opinions on…
Talking To Your Kids About Making Good Choices With Your (And Eventually Their) Money This bench-talk is aiming at parents, who want to make teaching your kids to be great…
The Dangers of a Top Heavy Lifestyle The difference between those that stay upright and the others that fall is the strength of the plans that are put in place…
Everyone needs some sort of life insurance but how do you determine what type of insurance you need or how much coverage you will need? In this Bench Talk,…
5 Things You Can Do Today Here is your personal financial short list: Start an emergency savings account. Find one thing to eliminate from your budget. Increase your 401k contribution. Schedule…
A Not-So-Humble Brag The urban dictionary defines “humble brag” as an attempt to brag by couching it in a phony show of humility, and we all cringe at the thought…
Video transcript: No, no, no, no! You can’t do that! That will never work! We’ve all run into that person – the “Eeyores” of the world. Do you think of…
Inflation and Mosquitoes – what do these two things have in common? Mosquitoes, as we all know too well, are those pesky, little bugs that bite and cause skin…