Sylvie
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Sylvie
If you don't *feel* like writing, remember: mood & attitude are two different things. Mood is the emotional weather we find ourselves caught in. Attitude is our perspective, a compass, a little lighthouse with a big beam. Mood isn't fixable. Attitude, however, is flexible.
Shira Erlichmantwitter.com
I talked to a mom who was struggling to find her daughter ballet shoes.
She’d already ordered (and had to return 🫠) four pairs.
And she realized that she was spending all that time on her phone... instead of being present with her daughter.
In the past, this would have looked like:
• A trip to the ballet store
• Talking on the car ride
• Maybe ice cream... See more
She’d already ordered (and had to return 🫠) four pairs.
And she realized that she was spending all that time on her phone... instead of being present with her daughter.
In the past, this would have looked like:
• A trip to the ballet store
• Talking on the car ride
• Maybe ice cream... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
“All feelings are welcome; all behaviors are not.”
Small Planet Institute co-founder Anna Lappé once said:
“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”
The beautiful budget
Save early and late. For many families, surging on TSP/401(k)/IRA before peak child experiential years then reducing retirement savings to boost memory-making expenditures during the Kid-span followed by maximizing saving after the Kid-span is a great way to harness the power of compounding.
Think about it this way—if you’re already at or above glidepath for your retirement needs, will spending $10K more on vacations for 10 years instead of investing $10K more in the TSP knock you off course? We can math that out, but for diligent savers it probably won’t.
Prioritize Roth IRA and taxable accounts.
In retirement, go where the money is: work. Few of us want to age in place at our workplace, but stepping out of the workforce early isn’t inherently virtuous either. What if the bill-payer for the Kid-Span is working a few extra years?
Prioritize. It’s probably going to be a brutal few years in the housing market. The days of cheap mortgages to buy reasonably priced McMansions may be in the rearview mirror for now. Can you tolerate less house to have a better Kid-span?
Discipline your dollars.
I work with the wealthy, the children of the wealthy and the soon to be wealthy. Please listen to what I have to say. I know you think that if you can just make enough money, your problems will go away. And there will be harmony in your household. And your relationships will be better.Unfortunately, that that’s not how it works. What actually... See more
I work with the wealthy, the children of the wealthy and the soon to be… | Joshua Brown | 285 comments
creativity isn’t born when everything is tidy and separate. It comes from cross-pollination, unexpected combinations, and head-on collisions between things that don’t necessarily go together.