by Julia Chung | Apr 23, 2018 | CPP, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning, Small Business
Have you ever felt like everyone is working with the same set of information that you are – and therefore, sharing it would not be valuable? It’s a cognitive bias called “false-consensus,” which leads people to believe that their own values and ideas are...
by Krysten Merriman | Mar 7, 2018 | Accountability, Budgets, Debt Management, Personal Financial Planning
Note: this is not a sponsored post, but I did receive a free copy of the book. There’s no shortage of personal finance books out there, and so many of them are nearly indistinguishable from the rest. Which make sense: the rules mostly stay the same, with occasional...
by Julia Chung | Feb 26, 2018 | Financial Planners, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
In December and January, we talked quite a bit about the perils of uncertainty and how to deal with them. Then – BAM – the February market came and showed us just what uncertainty looks like. So basically, our publishing schedule is a month or two ahead¹....
by Julia Chung | Jan 22, 2018 | Accountability, Big Picture, Investing, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
Oh, January. The calendar New Year starts smack-dab in the middle of winter, and as much as we try to gear up and get excited about this first month, there’s something so exhausting about January. It’s cold. The bills from the holidays are rolling in. We had holidays...
by Sandi Martin | Jan 3, 2018 | Big Picture, Blog, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
For 2018, I want you to have time. Sweet, precious, time. And understand me: I don’t want you to have more time, or productive time, or fulfilling time – all good things, don’t get me wrong, but not the kind of time I so desperately want for you. No, the kind of...
by Julia Chung | Dec 14, 2017 | Big Picture, Goal Planning, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
At the end of the year, things get undeniably gloomy – particularly on the southern west coast, where we like to brag about our summers and lack of snow, brushing aside any mention of the solid six to eight months of grey skies and relentless rain that can...
