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20 Feb 2015 The Value of Right Now: Two Lessons From Michael Jordan

Posted at 11:35h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Two years ago, when Michael Jordan turned 50, Wright Thompson wrote a captivating piece on the man from Wilmington. Thompson documents the struggles Jordan has faced as he grows older, Jordan

becomes further and further removed from his younger genius. To read it is to be confronted with a man who is flailing wildly for a sense of identity, struggling to understand what purpose he could possibly have now that he can no longer do what he feels he was made to do.

19 Dec 2014 Two Things: “Thank You” and Haiku

Posted at 15:29h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Sketch by Carl Richards of Behavior Gap We have so much to be thankful for here at Beacon, and in the very center of that sense of gratefulness is You. We consider ourselves blessed to be in the position of walking alongside you as you craft a...

05 Dec 2014 8 Financial Planning Tips for Year-End

Posted at 13:11h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

It hardly seems possible (is it a tryptophan-induced illusion?), but somehow Thanksgiving is in the past and Christmas will be here in less than three weeks. That sentence is not meant to cause widespread panic among our readers who haven't even begun to think about holiday shopping, though we would understand if it did. Thank goodness for the Internet, right?

07 Nov 2014 The One Guarantee

Posted at 14:28h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I got my first job when I was 8, selling The Pilot (Moore County's local newspaper) to businesses near my home 50 or so miles south of Raleigh. The gig was super simple in those times: I bought each paper for 30 cents and sold it for 50 cents. For four years, I sold the paper three days a week, earning a profit of 20 cents on every paper I sold.