I had a couple of millennials on my team during my Manager/Leader years, and they are a completely different than my generation in the best possible way. The speed and efficiency with which the millennials can process complex technical information that boggles my mind. They are blank slates and their brains are like sponges that absorb all kinds of information and stimuli. We all have to be conscious to filter a few things that we say and do just a little bit, as most of us have twenty-plus years of experience and these folks have just three. They do take things at face value and yet don’t have the experience to read between the lines or learn how to filter some of the chatter that goes on. I’m happy to report, that this has not changed from the time some of us were twenty-somethings ourselves. I’ll leave working and training millennials alone for the moment as I’m still trying to develop best practices without sounding like a parent. There are exceptions though, and one of those topics that are covered in the theme of this blog. Continue reading “Here’s Why I Don’t Need a Financial Advisor”
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What Cooking Has In Common With Personal Finance
Goal setting and execution was covered in several posts this year, and now that we are into the last three months of the year. It’s time for a way-point check-in on your goal execution. Woulda, shoulda, coulda, is not a way to measure progress unless, of course, you shoulda all over yourself. In this case, regrets might be the only measurable thing. One should never measure those unless you want to stack them up and use them for leverage. If that works, go for it. Don’t wait for New Year’s Eve to execute. Continue reading “What Cooking Has In Common With Personal Finance”