Prosperity Thinkers BLOG
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10 Ways to Money-Proof Your Relationship
Millions of Americans have just celebrated Valentine’s Day with special dinners, cards, flowers, chocolates, and “I love you’s.” Whether you’re a fan of Hallmark Holidays or not (I’m not), hopefully, we can all celebrate love, partnership, marriage, and companionship! And now is a good
The Numbers Don’t Lie, Yet What Do They Mean?
In order to fully appreciate the impact of computers, you must remember what life was like before them. In short, you have to be older than 70—and remember a world where most receipts were handwritten, bankers calculated monthly loans from interest rate books in
The Gap and the Gain – How we start our days.
So there’s how we start our days and then maybe there’s difference in how we know we could best start our days. So, I’m a human, like all of us, and there are some days that I start my day well, and there are
Should You Keep or Surrender a Universal Life Policy?
“You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.”—Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler” There’s an ugly truth about universal life insurance policies. While they’ve been sold as a viable alternative to
Whole Life Insurance: Making the Complex Simple
The French essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) sagely observed: “Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.” Although Montaigne’s comments are more than four centuries old, they still apply today—especially when the topic is cash value life insurance. In the United States,
Year-End Review: Financial Checklist and Principles of Prosperity
At Prosperity Thinkers, we practice Prosperity Economics—an alternative to typical financial planning. Prosperity Economics teaches us to keep control of our own dollars and build sustainable wealth that expands our choices and cannot vanish in a stock market crash. To measure our progress, we
Three Monkeys and a Cat: The Truth about Picking Stocks
“A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.” -Burton Malkiel, Asset manager and author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Who knew that Economist Burton
21 Gratitude Benefits for Happiness, Health and Wealth!
“Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity.” Eckhart Tolle 2023 has been an unbelievable year—one with unusual challenges! In addition to the economic hardships we seem to be facing, the media floods us with information to
How to Measure Backwards for Mental and Numerical Financial Freedom
What is true financial freedom? Can you define freedom with a number? Is financial freedom achieved if you can simply save a million dollars and retire at 40? Unfortunately, while this is a common “goal” for today’s standards, it’s difficult to put a true