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 The 6 Financial Habits Of Mentally Strong People for Year-End Planning 

As the seasons start to change and the holiday season approaches, it’s the perfect time for a financial check-up. Let’s reflect on how much we’ve accomplished this year and set the stage for financial success in the upcoming year with some year-end planning. If you haven’t scheduled a meeting with your advisors yet, now is the time to get your financial planning done. In fact, for our clients, this is one of the busiest and most important planning periods of the year.

Many of us set ambitious financial goals, but how often do we follow through with them? It’s time to take a page from the mentally strong and map out some to-dos to achieve our financial objectives as we head into the end of the year. Remember how important reaching financial independence is?

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You’re Going to Explode! You’re Pissed Off: How to Keep Your Emotions from Taking Over

What do you do when you feel yourself about to react negatively? And thats putting it lightly! You know the point when things are about to get UGG-LY. You feel like you have been pushed too far and youre about to scream. When butting heads with your kids doesnt even come close to describing it? When your co-worker is being completely unreasonable? Your family is driving you MAD! Its a hellish moment and you are on the verge of bursting into a Mommy monster. The key to not reacting is to be the observer. The Observer vs. The Reactor

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Understanding Men in Love

Understanding men is a challenge in and of itself, even though they claim we’re the complicated ones. A man in love is an even more complex being; so complex, in fact, that sometimes he may act like a woman. All those strange things he does make sense, somehow, if we can step back and look at him not as a man, primarily, but as a human in love, subject to emotion, passion, self-doubt, ecstasy and sappy poetry.