As parents, it’s never too early—or too late—to model responsible driving habits for your own children. Driving collisions and crashes are the number one killer of teenagers; there are over 6,000 traffic deaths and 500,000 serious injuries of 13-19 year olds that occur every year in the United States. One man is on a mission to change those statistics. (more…)
Starting a Family
10 Lessons I Learned from My Mom
So, I’ve been a mom for just over two years now, and in that short time my appreciation for my own mother has grown immensely. I’ve always appreciated my mom, but until I became a mother myself, I did not grasp the sheer amount of work, dedication and love that motherhood demands. I’ve told her this, but somehow it just seems like I can never stop saying, “thank you.” (more…)
Secrets of a Former Financial Advisor… Budgets
I am a former financial advisor. The company I worked for is not important (rhymes with “barbarian excess”), but the life and money lessons I learned from that experience proved to be very valuable. For example, I learned that I can’t sell, which might have led to my career change into compliance oversight of financial services. I liked helping people, and helping them solve the puzzles that were their finances and their frustrating lack of progress towards their goals. But more often than not, I found that what was in their best interest was to keep their accounts where they were, and find a way to save more. But as with losing weight, people don’t want the difficult and slow, albeit tried and true way to get there. They want a magic pill that gets them results tomorrow. Which brings me to the first lesson I learned about people and money:
Budgets Don’t Work.
