Why you can not Outsource Financial Success
Since we are not taught anything about financial success in school, it’s a natural inclination to try to find someone else to help us achieve it. Trying to take advice from the talking heads on TV or the millions of Internet blogs is also a challenge. There’s so much information, that it’s difficult to know where to look.
The answer that many people come up with is to trust a financial advisor. They think that he advisor will help guide them with their investments, and they would not be able to achieve financial success otherwise. After speaking with the financial advisor for a few hours and making their decisions, they go back to work and spend as little time and energy thinking about investing as possible. Dreams of financial success are thrown on the back burner. This system is known as the Ron Popeil approach to financial success. Read more…
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