1368: How to Make Good Financial Decisions by Derick Van Ness of Big Life Financial on Investment Vehicle Advice
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is optimal finance daily episode 1368 |
| 0:04.6 | How to Make Good Financial Decisions |
| 0:07.1 | by Derek Van Ness of big life financial.com |
| 0:11.2 | And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Merriam. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the show where I read to you from some of the best personal finance blogs on the planet, |
| 0:20.0 | sometimes a little too enthusiastically. |
| 0:23.0 | I am just having way too much fun over here reading to you from all of these fantastic blogs. |
| 0:29.0 | It's as if all these writers wrote all these great songs, and now I get to perform the covers. |
| 0:35.2 | For now let's get right to today's post as we optimize your life. How to make good financial decisions by Derek Van Ness of Big Life Financial.com |
| 0:51.0 | Have you ever wondered how some people make such great financial decisions while others seem to stumble at every opportunity? |
| 0:59.0 | Do you know the difference between a good financial decision and a not so good one? |
| 1:05.0 | Can you imagine how useful it would be to have a framework for making better financial decisions |
| 1:10.1 | in your life? |
| 1:11.6 | Ironically, in most cases, people like you and I aren't actually making |
| 1:15.4 | financial decisions at all. Instead they are simply following the path of |
| 1:20.5 | lease resistance and doing what the herd has told them is best. |
| 1:25.0 | That easy road often looks like contributing to a company sponsored IRA, |
| 1:30.0 | 401k, or other stock market vehicle without much thought to how it will impact their future liquidity, mindset, or taxes. |
| 1:38.0 | In other cases, running on financial autopilot means trying to pay off a mortgage or student loan debt as quickly |
| 1:46.0 | as possible without understanding the pros or cons of their decision. |
| 1:51.2 | Even worse, the path of lease resistance can look like giving money to a friend or relative |
| 1:56.2 | to invest or start a business simply because they asked. |
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