Investing Column

I’ve found myself making more decisions like this in the last six to eight weeks, and I’m hoping you’re starting to make these types of decisions too.

In order to determine how susceptible you are to making a mistake here, simply examine your relationship with gift cards.

In a professional setting, a trusted relationship can take an otherwise risky proposition and turn it into an enjoyable experience that helps you achieve your goals more efficiently.

Sometimes the realization that certainty doesn’t exist disguises itself as failure.

I’ve always likened financially weaning adult children to the moment you taught the same children to ride their bikes without training wheels.

Unfortunately, comparing ourselves to others doesn’t stop when we matriculate through elementary school. In fact, it gets worse. And at the root of the comparison, you’ll most often find money.

Your goal should be to make sure your major-purchase timelines are flexible enough that the supply-and-demand factors fall in your favor and don’t back you into a suboptimal outcome.

Most people don’t spend enough time scrutinizing how much capacity for risk they have.

Personally, my top three career accomplishments have nothing to do with money.