Stock market volatility is normal. Not reacting to market volatility is hard.
In a world of uncertainty, we are encouraged to focus on what we can control, and to worry little about what we cannot. This is easier...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 2 min
What to do during a down market: very little. A Bear Market is scary in name only.
Everyone is an expert during good times. Many do it yourself investors spent the last decade investing in any one of many “can’t lose”...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Financial planning tasks for the bored.
As we enter month 98 (I lost count) of the pandemic and we think about all the things we want to be doing, but can’t, I want to spend a...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
How Financial Planners see Covid-19 and visualize the future
Let me start off this month’s newsletter by wishing all of you a very safe and healthy summer season. A short four months ago I was...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 5 min
Why the economy and the stock market are not the same thing
Has anyone noticed the damage the world economy has taken over the last two months? Sharp and dramatic increases in unemployment. ...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
What a quarantine tells you about your budget
Well, this certainly has been a strange month for all of us. And while I have tried to make both my work life and personal life normal...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
You Can't 'Win' with a Diversified Portfolio, but Trying to 'Win' is not the Point
Everyone wants to have the highest investment returns with the lowest amount of risk. But the average investor knows that this isn’t...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
In life, one needs to find the happy balance between being frugal and enriching your life.
From time to time I dedicate a little of my professional focus on my own financial plan, and make sure I am practicing the behavior I...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Three financial futures that may or may not happen. Part 3: Just what the doctor ordered.
In the final part of a three-part series, about what planners do and do not know, we explore the most important variable in financial...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Three financial futures that may or may not happen. Part 2: Our children are the future
For this month’s ‘For your consideration’ I submit the second of three parts in a series of ‘what-If’ scenarios. Factors of financial...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Three financial futures that may or may not happen. Part I: Knowledge and market volatility
Nothing is better than the changing of the seasons! In fall leaves change colors, decorating the landscape. In spring flowers come...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Don't treat your goals like a trophy case
Every so often there is a news story that crosses the borders of various genres. Usually entertainment news stays within the universe of...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 5 min
There's a good chance that guy on the internet doesn't know what he's talking about.
The internet is a wonderful and amazing testament to the ingenuity of the human mind. It has made the world smaller, brought people...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Too Much Information Can Really Test Your Patience
Approximately twice a year, the stock market delivers three to four weeks of consistent negative returns. It is not an unusual event,...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 5 min
Investing Success or Investing Failure - It's All on You!
In this week’s ‘For your Consideration’ I submit another ‘top ten’ list. I enjoy lists! Shopping lists, tasks lists, agendas - They...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Seven Investment Tips, Which Provide no Real Reason to Invest
Over the last ten to twenty years, the financial environment, with the help of widely available technology, has slowly changed the the...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Top Ten Most Important Financial Decisions You'll Make in Your Life
Decisions Decisions....Life is full of them. Some decision are more important than others, while some are certainly more fun to make. ...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 4 min
A Year in the Life of a Financial Plan
Well, I guess summer is over. Albeit, not according to the seasonal calendar, but rather the calendar in my head as a parent. School...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Advances in Technology May One Day Make Humans Impervious to Financial Mistakes
For this month's 'For Your Consideration' submission, I'm going to open up to all of you reading this article. Since clients and...
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Greg Gorski
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Financial Planning is an Action Verb
I have a hypothetical offer for you. What if I told you that I could guarantee that you will achieve all of your financial goals with no...
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