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Welcome to our Personal Finance Blog
Money bewilders most of us. How to spend it, save it, invest it, and how to best protect the person who makes it.
These questions we all face daily — a puzzle we all attempt to understand and solve just about every day. Yet despite money's centrality to our lives and businesses, it's something we all grapple with, and mostly in private.
- Money is the 'Lord Voldemort' of topics; feared by most and mentioned by a few. It's oddly uncomfortable to discuss socially and rarely even with our partners, parents, and children.
Perhaps that's because managing our money and life's risks inevitably involves the fusion of both the emotional and practical aspects of our decision-making processes. The most difficult of questions are those with both economic and emotional answers.
Our educational Personal Finance Blog is for people who want to grow and remain wealthy. And while the journey toward wealth is clearly marked, you still have to be looking in the right direction.
At Sapience, we're all about The How.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit ― Aristotle.
For more than 10 years I enjoyed a successful career in law. Today, when many people learn about my previous position and see the noticeably different life I’m now seen to be living, it’s not uncommon for many to inquisitively ask the same question. ‘Don’t you miss all that now?’
Born in the 1980s? Lucky you (the case for Gen Y envy)
We believe people do business with people, not companies; and when given choice, people always do business with people who best understand them.
Working smarter? It just might be bad advice
The Genie is out of the bottle (mind the metaphor)
Information about building a business has never been more accessible.
But many small businesses still fail in the first 2 years.
Why?
Asking great questions; It's better than finding simple answers
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers - Voltaire
Uncomfortable confessions from a conference - Knowing how 'you’ll deliver' is part of the attraction
I confess: there’s something that has baffled me for years but I've been too embarrassed to ask about, and now I wonder if I’m too old to bother.
- Last week at a business conference, a well-dressed supplier sidled up to me in public, and ogling my name tag asked, “So what's your value-proposition Drew?”
- I was taken aback. I've never been asked for one so directly. I remember immediately thinking, ‘I’m not sure you’re my type’ and ‘shouldn’t we at least have coffee first to get to know more about each other?’
I must say, the interaction left me feeling manhandled; and a little objectified, too.
What you really value you start today -(Tales from the dessert cart!)
Many things in life and business depend upon insights grown and tested over time.
- Are you solving the wrong problem with the right answer?
- What does it feel like to be wrong?
- Give with your head more than your heart
- Whos invested in your business?
- The evolving financial effects of prostate cancer surgery and how to mange this new risk
- What does it mean you have to spend money to make money?
- What happens when the dominos begin to fall in a business?
