Well guys, as you know, one of our favorite parts to get into the show is we get to answer your questions.

You get to ask us questions and we are more than happy to load you up with our thoughts.

Today's live stream was wonderful. We have tons of really, really good questions in here.

And so I'm just going to kind of go through and answer some of them.

And Brian, what do you think? You want to give away some tumblers today?

It sounds great. All right, let's give away some tumblers today.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement, investing, taxes.

You've got financial questions. He's got financial answers. It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

Here, I'll ask you for this first one because it's one that we've talked about a little bit before.

You can answer this one pretty quickly. This is from Jeffrey. He said, should my military

retirement be part of my net worth statement? I'm going to expand that a little bit. How do I

think about pensions or other sources of future income? How do I show that in my net worth statement?

Or how do I think about that when I'm doing my annual net worth statement?

I'll go first talk about the concept and then we'll go specifically into his question.

Promise income streams are not the same as assets that go on your net worth statement.

So what I mean about that, but then I'll bring it back in before you freak out.

Social security. A lot of people are like, well, we're not putting social security on my net

worth statement. Or where do I put that pension on my net worth statement? Well, if it's just a promise

of future cash flow or payments to help you through retirement, I think it's a footnote to your

to your net worth statement. It's not actually an asset. Now, there's an exception to this.

What about pensions? Where every year they send you an annual statement with a lump sum opportunity

of what the benefit that's accrued to this point, yes, it potentially could be future cash flows.

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