Financial Psychology

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Weekend Reading: Money Isn't Real

Money undeniably holds a significant place in your life. The stress and anxiety experienced when bills are due, for example, highlights the emotional impact it can create. Recognizing that money is a construct, however, can help you approach your finances more rationally.

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Weekend Reading: You’ve Heard About Behavioral Finance. But What About Physical Finance?

Physical finance examines the relationship between finance and various physical factors, such as weather patterns and solar activity.

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Weekend Reading: The Paralyzing Effects of Financial Perfectionism (and a Better Way)

One of the biggest culprits of inaction is analysis paralysis. You don’t make a move because you’re afraid it will be the wrong one or that it won’t pan out perfectly, but often, all you need to do is take that first step.

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Weekend Reading: Investing Resolutions for Life

What can you take away from volatile times? Many investing lessons; Not just for 2023, but for life.

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Weekend Reading: Ness Labs – The Default Effect: Why We Renounce Our Ability to Choose

When presented with a list of options, the ability to make our own choice grants us control. However, when a default option is added to the mix, humans tend to run with the status quo.

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Weekend Reading: You Have “Enough” Money When You Can Afford 2 Needs

One of – if not the biggest – financial priorities you might have is ensuring you have enough money. But what exactly is “Enough”?

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Weekend Reading: White Couch

Do you have any money regrets? Maybe you made a financial mistake years ago that still continues to bother you. Or, maybe recently you’re second guessing an investment decision or purchase you made.

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Weekend Reading: What is In Your Control?

Understanding what you can confidently keep in your wheelhouse first and foremost begins with recognizing what you have zero control over.

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Weekend Reading: 4 Toxic Money Beliefs That Keep You from Financial Freedom

A healthy relationship with money can help lend to a life of fulfillment and financial independence, but it also involves being self aware of potential toxic money beliefs.

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Weekend Reading: The Survival Instinct of Money

Money (more specifically, the thought of not having enough of it) can elicit fear for many reasons, but often, the biggest is due to it triggering a sense of survival.

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Weekend Reading: How to Stop Stressing Over Money

Chances are, at one point or another in your life, you’ve had concerns revolving around money. In fact, according to the American Psychological Association, money is the leading cause of stress in the U.S.

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Weekend Reading: The Market Has No Memory. Should We?

While learning from your past investment mistakes should certainly teach you lessons, they also shouldn’t prevent you from making sound investment decisions today.