I am not sure how I convinced Scarlett to give the financial planning process one more chance. Her experience with financial planners had been awful. The meetings made her feel dumb — “They looked at me like I was nuts for what I thought was a very simple question. How much do I need to…

I was trying to change the taillight bulb in my car this weekend and realized that the head of the screw matched nothing in my toolkit.  The dealership requested $185 to replace the bulb, a price I was not willing to pay to change a lightbulb!  So I headed to my local Advance Auto Parts…

If you were stranded on a desert island for two weeks with the choice of food or water, which would you pick?    Your answer to this question will vary depending on when it is asked.    When this question was asked at a gym before the workout, the vast majority said food.  Asked after the workout,…

None of us are so talented that we don’t need help. Maybe that’s why the below video tugs on me so. Click to watch. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/ohio-runner-stops-state-final-aid-fallen-opponent-100722161.html It’s interesting to note a few things. Both runners are in shape, both have run this track probably hundreds of times, yet it wasn’t enough. At the moment of completion…

A blindfolded human being will walk in circles, not a straight line. We hear stories about lost hikers walking in circles for days which seems odd since walking a straight line seems like it should be second nature. It is not. Jan Souman, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany,…

At ninety-three, Richard Zimmerman broke out of his nursing home and hitchhiked all the way back home.  He didn’t want what others wanted; he wanted less.  He needed less, and wouldn’t let anyone give him more.  At last, at the age of ninety-four, he laid his head down and died.  The way he wanted to,…

A lot has happened in the three months here at Holcombe Financial. We had a wonderful turnout for our open house. We welcomed Marcia Mayoue to the firm and at the same time showed off our new office. Today we are launching our Only Get Rich Once blog as a thoughtful resource for all who…

Just finished a beautiful drive to the North Georgia Mountains. I visited a client who is selling her home. It isn’t selling.  Whether the price is too high or the fact buyers haven’t come out of hibernation wasn’t clear, but something else was. As we talked I realized she is battling a behavioral flaw called…

We are moving our office and I’m in the market for a new flat screen television for our conference room. The choices are numbing. A decision that should be fun has become painful.  So I looked for a website to help me make the “perfect choice.”  After answering more than 30 questions on how I plan to…