Bring Good Things to Life Bring good things to life. More than a motto, it is how you become an adult. Eventually, you birth yourself and your children. Emotional adulthood requires a growth mindset. It requires that we think […]
If You Don’t Run Your Mind, Someone Else Will Initially, life feels like a game. Maybe checkers, but if you keep playing that way, you lose to the folks playing chess. Eventually, you realize if you don’t run your mind, […]
Should You Rebalance Your Portfolio in Retirement? When you are retired, should you rebalance your portfolio? Of course, it depends on your goals, timeframe, and the purpose of the money. But what evidence supports portfolio rebalancing when retired? I will […]
Retirement Synchronicity Finding synchronicity in retirement is enjoyable; you might want to try it. Why not increase the chance of meaningful coincidences? After all, some of the best moments in life are unplanned and unscripted. Life is what happens […]
Celebrate your Failures I celebrate my failures, like when I hurt my hip doing the swan pose. And my neck is bad from Covid (seriously, trust me, I used to be an infectious diseases doctor). Most recently, I hurt […]
Retiring Physician Checklist Retiring Physician Checklist. Physicians love to make lists and check off stuff. ABG, check. CXR, check. Notes and basic hygiene… later. What about retirement? What list of items do you need to check off in your retiring […]
Play in Retirement It seems as if children are born to know how to play, and adults just plain forget how to play. What is play, and why is it important for adults to play daily? Especially in […]
The Retirement “Life Portfolio” I got to thinking about my retirement “life portfolio.” Remember the thought experiment in which you challenge yourself to imagine what you would do if you were 100% cash rather than invested in your current […]
Get the Last Doubling – The Portfolio Size Effect The portfolio size effect leads to a tough decision: a tradeoff. All investment decisions are tradeoffs. You want to get what you can from the market before you retire while […]
