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Financial Planning Wisdom From Nazrudin Project
One of the most influential financial planning organizations I participate in doesn't officially exist. The Nazrudin Project is an eclectic, holistic group of financial life planners, therapists,...
Are South Dakota Trusts Immoral “Tax Havens”?
South Dakota has certainly been in the news recently. Coverage of the leaked "Pandora Papers" included headlines like "How South Dakota became a global tax haven," "South Dakota Is a Moral Sewer and...
Look Beyond Alarming Social Security Headlines
If you are in your 50s or 60s, you may have reacted with concern to the numerous recent news reports about the August 31, 2021, annual report from the Social Security Board of Trustees on the...
Fearing The Money May Run Out: Money Vigilance
The fourth and final category of Money Scripts in this series is Money Vigilance. Those with Money Vigilance scripts tend to be watchful and guarded about their finances. They will commonly have...
Self-Worth and Net Worth: Status Money Scripts
For the third in this series of columns on money script categories, let's look at Money Status. This differs from the Money Worship category in having its focus on social acceptance. People in this...
Wishing For The Midas Touch? Exploring Money Worship
In the second of this four-part series on money scripts, let's explore the category that Dr. Brad Klontz calls Money Worship. Unless you have always envied the mythical "golden touch" of King Midas,...
Money Script Categories: Money Avoidance
Money scripts are beliefs we have acquired about money and how it works. We are usually unaware of these beliefs, in part because we see them as facts—"just the way it is." We typically hold 50 to...
No, Home Title Thieves Can’t Steal Your House
Home title theft. This is a "threat" I only learned about from frantic radio commercials warning that your home can be stolen from you. They claim thieves can deed your property to themselves and...
Teaching Money Skills Essential For 21st Century
For our ancestors, even as recently as the 19th Century in many places, survival skills were hands-on. If you didn't know how to build a house, farm, hunt, butcher animals, sew, and cook, you...
How Healthy Life Habits Can Save You Money
Is maintaining good physical health a worthwhile investment? The statistics suggest that in the long run, poor health will cost far more than the money or time it takes to maintain good health. Most...
Eight Aspects of Financial Trauma
In a recent column, I discussed financial trauma—money-related occurrences that, either as single extreme events or chronic patterns, can overwhelm a person and become traumatic. Some emotional...
Leaving Money Wisely To A Spendthrift Heir
A common estate-planning question is whether it makes sense to leave inheritances with strings attached. My typical answer is "it depends." It's natural to want your legacy to be used wisely, but...
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