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08 Dec 2022 A Garden is Hard Work

Posted at 11:42h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

When I was a kid, some of my favorite books were from the Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel. Each book contains five silly, yet profound, stories about a tall, green, easy-going frog and a short, more serious, and sometimes neurotic, toad. The stories...

01 Dec 2022 Anchoring

Posted at 15:58h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

In 1974, two psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, published the paper, "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases." In it, they discuss biases inherent in all of us that, consciously or not (usually not) impact our decision-making. All were groundbreaking at the time and remain...

17 Nov 2022 An Invitation to Give: Raleigh Rescue Mission

Posted at 19:38h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I have spent a fair amount of time on this blog writing about giving, and I can guarantee more of the same for as long as I have log-in credentials to the website. But today I'm not going to do any lecturing or cajoling. I simply...

10 Nov 2022 Desires pretending to be needs

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

Last week Seth Godin wrote a blog that was short enough and good enough that I won't bother trying to paraphrase: Habits are not needs It’s easy to imagine that they are, as it lets us off the hook as habits become negative, or even addictions. If someone...