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Amateurs

I’ve seen my fair share of “amateur” and “professional” investors: the labels are meaningless.

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Quality

Cheap money doesn’t inspire quality - it unmoors from it.

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Passive

Aren’t we all simply striving to budget the attention we have to the things that matter most?

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Inertia

I have one, and only one, competitor. It has no online presence. No marketing budget. No credentials or designations.

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Problems

While we strive to live a problem-free life, this is fact an unrealistic goal: a problem-free life, like perfection, is unattainable.

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Stardust

Think of this preparation like being an Olympic diver - the goal is not to avoid getting wet, it is to make the smallest splash possible.

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Beginnings

If there was one word to sum up August, it would have to be “Beginnings” - a time that requires holding space for both joy and sadness.

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GARP

“Trees don’t grow to the sky.” I first heard this proverb at an investment presentation early in my career.

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Fibonacci

Math was not my subject in high school. I adored History and English, muddled through French and German, but Math was WORK.

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Bread

When I was a junior in college, I made a friend whose father was a Master Baker.

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Start Here

Someone asked me recently to share my philosophy - essentially my “pitch” as a financial planner.

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