by Joe Clark | Jul 17, 2019 | Your Life After Work
People take risks every day. Some of them are more obvious like driving a car, but we forget the less obvious such as falling in the shower. There are four things you can do to help mitigate your exposure to risk, including financial risk, (although that won’t help...
by Joe Clark | Jun 21, 2019 | Legacy Planning, Your Life After Work
One of the most important messages we strive to convey to families is that retirement planning is an ongoing journey and not a one-time event. Successful retirement journeys demand a roadmap, complete with milestone markers for predictable occurrences along life’s...
by Joe Clark | May 16, 2019 | Your Life After Work
Health concerns are very private and personal issues, and we sometimes even avoid our doctor because we don’t want to share or hear the news. People often pray and help others in need, while quietly suffering themselves. This is the third part of a four-part series...
by Joe Clark | Apr 18, 2019 | Investments, Your Life After Work
Remember when the coach from the movie Bad News Bears wrote the word “assume” on the chalk board? He then went on to draw two lines – one on each side of the letter “U” to bring our attention to the risk of making assumptions. The lesson has been a major part of my...
by Joe Clark | Apr 7, 2019 | Investments, Life Happens, Your Life After Work
There is a Parable in the Bible where Jesus tells the story of a landowner turning the operation over to three of his servants while he was gone. Two of the slaves “invested the money” and one did not. Though there are Bible scholars who would remind us that we tend...
by Joe Clark | Mar 28, 2019 | Your Life After Work
As a child and young adult, you begin to save and accumulate assets for a better future. This future, called retirement was usually an open-ended and vague thought. After all, who wants to start their career by figuring out when they could quit? To save for...