Wealth Blog Post

The Simple Path to Wealth: What Are You Willing to Forego? I want my cake and eat it too.    This is true both literally and figuratively. Like, I really want to eat cake. And ice cream, and cookies, and drink beer and eat pizza.  And I also want to [...]

Simple Path to Wealth: Patterns and Identity We do things the way we do them.    My morning routine is almost identical everyday, as is my evening routine.    My wife and I have very structured routines with our kids, which is good for them and for us.    Humans [...]

The Simple Path to Wealth: Automating your Finances With his Showtime Rotisserie, Ron Popeil told us to “Set it and forget it.”   There’s value in setting something up and being able to go about your day, knowing you’ll get an expected result.   Personal finance is more complicated than [...]

Smart Money Moves: 7 Steps to Financial Security Over the course of our lifetimes, we’re going to make some smart money moves, and some dumb ones.    I’ve certainly made my fair share of bad financial decisions.    My 20s were spent in the 2000s, and the only way I’d [...]

Understanding Health Insurance Nobody plans to get sick or hurt, but life frequently ruins those plans. Healthcare costs are very high with a night in the hospital going for around $12,000. Health insurance covers the costs of medical care as well as provides a lot of other valuable benefits like [...]

Understanding Long-Term Care Insurance It’s hard to think of ourselves as an elderly person, but God willing, it’s going to happen.    It’s also hard to think of our future, elderly selves, requiring help doing simple things like moving around the house, preparing food and eating it, getting dressed, and [...]

Understanding Identity Theft Protection “That’ll never happen to me.”   We buy insurance despite low odds of something bad happening.   You and I are probably not going to die before we’re supposed to.     But if we did, the consequences would be catastrophic.    That’s why we buy life [...]