by Michael Isom | Dec 31, 2020 | Thoughts on Financial Security
True or False: Looking down the barrel of a government gun isn’t the time to make well-informed decisions. When do you make decisions? When you are forced to or when you are free to? Every day you are faced with choices big and small. I’m constantly reminded of the...
by Michael Isom | Dec 10, 2020 | Thoughts on Financial Security
We are in a snowstorm of an economy! Politics, Viruses, Vaccines, Freedoms, Equality… There is black Ice out there and it can be damn hard to spot! Some are frustrated that markets are not behaving the same as 2018 & 2019. Some hardly feel the difference. Some are...
by Michael Isom | Nov 19, 2020 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Recently I asked the group on Facebook if they would rather leave a pile of cash behind for their kids or the knowledge on how you created that pile of cash? Almost unanimously the answer was “I’d rather leave the knowledge.” So, we followed up...
by Michael Isom | Nov 12, 2020 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Do you believe your #1 Investment is your business or career or do you believe that somebody else’s business (i.e. a mutual fund or a stock, which is somebody else’s business) is the #1 Investment out there today? Think about it for just a moment. What has...
by Michael Isom | Nov 2, 2020 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Last Saturday I asked this question on my Facebook profile: “What keeps you up at night when it comes to money?” Out of all of the responses, this ONE really stood out to me. “Not that there isn’t enough of it but that I didn’t do enough to get what...
by Michael Isom | Oct 1, 2020 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Ask yourself this question:Are the dreams & goals for my family the same whether I am here or not? Today, I had a somber reflection, one that brought a tear to my eye. A small business owner friend of mine, who is about my age, died last night from a rare blood...