Fill your brain with some goodness and read some of these recommended articles on debt, investing, health, time management, and other interesting tidbits to give you a leg up in life.
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Financial Planning
- Your brain doesn’t function well while under financial stress. Often, the worse your financial situation, the worse your financial decision making becomes – https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/07/this-is-what-your-brain-does-when-you-have-money-woes.html
Investments/Valuations
- Things that have gone parabolic in the 2017 bubble market. It will be interesting to track these holdings over the second half of the cycle – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-09/in-2017-investors-can-either-buy-bubbles-or-be-left-far-behind
- Three market veterans sound off on the status of equity markets in the United States – https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/11/12/401-k-risk-what-3-stock-market-skeptics-see-ahead/847751001/
Health
- It’s important to remember that it doesn’t matter what job you have, how important you think you are, or how much money you have in the bank. If you ignore your health, it will eventually ignore you (with horrific end results). Sometimes the higher the job (which requires more stress), the more important you believe you are and the more money you have, the likely you are to ignore your most important asset (your body). This appears to be a great real-life case study. Time will tell how it works out – https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/07/trump-health-fears-loathes-exercise-sleeps-4-hours-never-eats-fruit.html
- Heart stents fail to alleviate chest pain but bring large downside risks. Another example of the healthcare industry performing expensive procedures without proof that they are better than doing nothing. We have a healthcare system that is set up where the burden of proof is showing that an expensive procedure isn’t worth doing versus the proof that doing the procedure is worth the risks – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/health/heart-disease-stents.html
- Here’s what we are learning over time; that there are plenty of items that significantly increase your risk of cancer; smoking cigarettes, eating refined sugar, exposure to toxins, lack of exercise and now conclusive proof that drinking alcohol greatly increases risks. Deny these at your own peril. It’s your body. Choose wisely. New research shows that alcohol is a major contributor – http://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-cancer-risk-studies-doctors-say-drink-less-2017-11
Other Tidbits
- Not every celebrity/superstar is a dumb-dumb with money. An example for music lovers – Why Dave Grohl puts every paycheck in the bank and drives a ‘family car’ – https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/foo-fighters-dave-grohls-frugal-spending-habits.html