What goes through your mind when one says “forget retirement”? We’re not inferring that you’ll be working till you’re 70 years old or that you should stop investing in your future years, but, how about this for a change in thought. What if you could invest in your retirement; and be able to enjoy the returns from those investment dollars today? We’re actually suggesting that you can have your cake and eat it too – right now!
For years, people have been socking away lots of money into investments they hope, in the long run, will be of greater value than … […]
Some of you might wonder what a G.O.K. fund is…
The expression once said by Dave Ramsay, a financial radio talk show host and best-selling author, means “God Only Knows” fund, or also more affectionately known as the Emergency fund.
We try so hard to set goals, but it’s the unexpected curve balls life throws at us that ruin our perfectly well thought out plans, like:
- The car has to be repaired
- Our furnace just died
- I just lost my job
- Little Johnny needs braces…
What’s with that?
That’s why so many people don’t follow through with their life plans, because life happens! Nissan’s ad expression says it all, “shift happens”. Although a more colorful … […]
There are four seasons to every year, but many people have an all around ‘wintery’ attitude right now concerning their financial future. They are freezing trying desperately to find ways of keeping warm! Others are hibernating waiting out the winter in hopes that the spring of a new beginning will fill the air…
But it doesn’t have to be that way. People are basing their decisions on ‘what if’ and not ‘what is’. Our governments want to stimulate the credit market, encouraging us to spend more. They’ve even considered bailing out entire industries of the plight they … […]
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