I have often given client’s reflection exercises where each person is to imagine themselves much older and look back to today. The change of perspective often helps to get someone to look toward the bigger picture about what makes us tick and what we truly value. I just turned sixty years of age, so I […]
The Great Shift Away From Economic Justice “The day of reckoning is here, we’re at the end of an era where we have Democratic spending policies and Republican tax policies. The result has been huge deficits and mounting debt burdens. It doesn’t work”- David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general. Rome wasn’t built in a day, […]
A Key to the Financial Planning Lock: “Off With Your Head!” Alice thought to herself, “Then there’s no use in speaking.” The voices didn’t join in this time, as she hadn’t spoken, but to her great surprise they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means-for I must confess […]
In Part I, we were looking into that the money is coin is made up of risk on one side with control on the other and that each one is a concept made up by language. So we come back to money as a socially constructed illusion. What our culture loves to tell us to […]
The Story of I, We, and IT continued The history of homo-economicus has always been about a battle between the I and the We. For each side, the IT has always been about equality. The I’s want equality of prospects for individuals to have the freedom to pursue the goals and motivations without government getting […]
The History of the Future of Money (Part I) Before this Little Piggy went to market, there was a big ol’ hairy Rat that took all his money and started a race. This was a grand race, called the It-diderod which most everyone called by the diminutive of It. The further that the race progressed, […]
Around twenty years ago, I started out in the financial services industry. While my goal was to become a Certified Financial Planning practitioner, I had to go through the courses and pass that exam in order to start my own firm. In the meantime, I started learning the ropes while hoping at the time that […]
Re-imagining Money as a Fair Tender There is a quote by William Faulkner that “History isn’t dead; it’s not even past.” There is a lot of talk that with the U.S. national debt where it is, this unsustainable level will bring the U.S. and its currency down. In this context, I would like to rework […]
Did you ever want to go back in time and say some clever retort that you failed to say the first time? There is a French phrase called l’esprit de l’escalier which translates that being on a staircase indicates that you are already about to leave which then means that the time has passed for […]
You say you want money, but you’re the one who’s a little stingy, Cuz we not only want you We need Leonardo Da Vinci. – Strange job interview Advice for recent college graduates, college students, and job seekers What was I skilled to do, what was there out there to do, and what did […]
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