Would you consider yourself to be financially intelligent? Depending on how you answer that, here’s another tough question: how much do you trust yourself to manage your own finances? Often we find that after answering the second question, clients want to go back and reanswer the first! And, that’s okay. As Ken Honda suggests, there’s more than one type of financial intelligence, and we can work on both to be happy and prosperous. Honda, Japan’s no. […]
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Marketing yourself beyond 2022
In the next few years, we are likely to see a significant increase in small businesses, from home enterprises to startups. Many people have had to create sideline income or recover from losing their jobs in a shrinking job market. Jobs seeing the fastest decline are in production or administration support, primarily due to automation and digitisation of platforms and processes. With the meteoric growth of social media, personal marketing has become an attractive option for […]
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What are you focused on in your financial plan?
Financial planning is so much more than making and sticking to a budget. That’s the entry point; it’s where we start to build the habit of understanding how our money flows and learning to go with that flow, but it’s a fraction of what integrated planning can truly accomplish. At Succession Financial Planning, we are focused on helping you integrate the fullness of your wealth in a way that enables and empowers you to live with […]
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Just one more
They say that getting old happens slowly, and then all at once. Most of the change around us occurs so gradually that we barely notice it; ageing, losing or gaining our fitness, losing or gaining weight, intimacy in relationships, and debt and investing. These are some of the areas of incrementally-unnoticeable change with which we’re most familiar. Often, our experience begins with gaining or losing “Just one more”. Just one more day before we arrange that […]
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It’s more than wealth; it’s about living well
As Forrest Gump once said, “There’s only so much money a man really needs; the rest is just for showing off.” In the same way that we can struggle with too little money, we can also struggle with too much money. This is because wellness doesn’t depend on our wealth, and it depends on many factors, the most important of which is probably our mindset. The more we engage with our financial planning in a way […]
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Re-train your brain for healthier relationships
At the heart of everything, we find relationships. Most of these are unintentional relationships that happen situationally, but some are relationships that stem from our choices. From the moment we enter the world, we will have a relationship with everyone and everything: from the space around us to the people who are present and how each made us feel. While these connections are as old as life, the Scientific Revolution sparked Newton’s insight in 1687. He […]
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Feelings – thoughts – actions
‘Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought,’ Marcus Aurelius. How we engage with our money reflects what’s going on inside our heads, which is an extension of what’s going on inside our hearts. They’re all connected. Our feelings affect our thoughts, which in turn direct our actions – but we can also turn that around by changing our actions to create new patterns of thinking, which in turn can change […]
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Don’t let tax get you down
We all know that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. Even after we’ve gone, taxes are still levied against our estate. The more money we make, the more money the taxman looks to take. Tax can be a serious stumbling block in our financial mindset, especially when we think about all the ways in which we are taxed, where that money goes and how it is ultimately invested into our community, whether […]
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Power of attorney for your parents’ financial planning
In a recent article, we spoke about several vital concerns when assisting your parents with their financial planning. Towards the end of the article, we touched on POA, or Power of Attorney, as an option to help your parents when they are becoming too frail or physically impaired to manage their affairs. Power of attorney is a common route that many take, as it gives us the legal right to represent someone when they cannot be […]
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The importance of being intentional
If we don’t stand for something, we will fall for anything. Essentially, our actions will either result from what we choose, or what is chosen for us. Our days are packed full of communication and actions. From the moment we engage with our mobile device or open our emails, messages begin to stream in and affect us. We will either be triggered into action by what we engage with or choose to follow our own intended […]
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