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Planning is not something you finish. It is the regular process of reviewing your story. A form of journaling, where you can go back and see...

Life is way more complicated than any story we choose for sense-making. Stories have narrative arcs that resonate. They set the scene, then ...

Knowing what communication game is being played, and how to play it, is fundamental. Like when someone comes home from work and they need to...

In Yoga classes you can see students who are incredibly stiff, partly because they are fit and strong. Forget the forward bend, a lot of ath...

Goals are not picking the best of every possibility in isolation. That is dreaming. You can close your eyes and visit various places instant...

Planning is not just picking one desired path. It is also preparing mentally, emotionally, relationally, and financially for the possibility...

We all have to eat. To eat, we need money. To get money, we need jobs. There are not enough jobs. Once there were not enough people for the ...

Less than a once-off answer, financial planning is like going to gym to build your risk tolerance. Initial conversations are about seeing wh...

The starting point of Financial Planning is earlier and separate from the specific way you make (and invest, and spend) money. You plot a co...

Financial Planning starts with a conversation about you and your relationship with money. The goal being to help you understand your risk to...

Looking back far enough, there are lots of examples of extreme events (high impact, low probability). Numbers we use for risk analysis make ...

Financial calm does not require you to be loaded. It comes from a level of confidence that you can cope in three dimensions.  1) With decisi...

Investment Analysts build models of businesses to help understand complexity. The point of the model is not to be correct or not. You know i...

Money makes money. This allows wealth to compound (the growth also produces), if not everything that is produced is consumed. If some of the...

Creative Destruction dismantles long standing ways of doing things in order to make way for innovation. It scales the idea of “making yourse...

I find the initial stages of learning confusing. In a physical way that affects my breathing, my tingling skin, and my wide eyes. Educatio...

The only thing we can be certain of, is that things won’t go according to plan. We can plan for, not going according to plan. Time matters...

A job for life is a thing of the past. A career for life is not guaranteed either. What hasn’t changed is that we have problems. Solving p...

Three important concepts when thinking about living a fulfilling life are Commitment, Openness, and Results. There are two ways of looking ...

Nature doesn't do straight lines. Life is incredibly noisy, and we don't know what we don't know. So how can we possibly plan? ...