The blog below is part of our 10th anniversary celebration at DataPoints. Firm Name: WorthyNest® Year Founded: 2016 About WorthyNest: We help Christian and Catholic parents build lasting wealth—financially, relationally, and spiritually—without compromising their faith or values. WorthyNest is a fee-only, fiduciary financial planning firm, meaning every recommendation is made solely in our clients’ best interest. Our services include comprehensive financial planning and faith-based investing, with guidance on retirement preparation, tax planning and tax-efficient …
Budgeting. Investing. Spending. Each of us reacts to money-related topics on a scale from negative to neutral to positive. Money attitudes are not perfect predictors of financial behaviors. However, how we feel about budgeting, spending, and investing impacts our financial goals. Indeed, our attitudes can affect the entire financial planning process, especially when working with others who may not share our perspectives. What Are Attitudes? Let’s start with the basics. What is an attitude? …
You’ve probably spent time thinking about how you might improve your health, career, finances, family, spirituality, or another essential element of your life. During this contemplation, you may inevitably conclude that a change is required. Many readers of our blog and books share a common problem: they acknowledge a change is necessary (either for themselves or their client), but they also instinctively know that making the needed change will be tough. Why? First, Let’s …
An obvious mechanism to help an individual spend their cash flow in accordance with their financial goals is to employ a budget. But for many of us, the idea of constricting any behavior, especially how we spend our money, is unpleasant. Even if we label it using the euphemism of a “spending plan.” And, changing money attitudes is challenging even for experts. Volumes of advice and technologies are available to help with the mechanics of …
Suppose you are trying to understand the complex underlying personal characteristics of your client, a potential employee, or even yourself. In that case, it goes without saying that you need a good tool (i.e., a good assessment) to measure these not-so-obvious personal characteristics. This is the heart of psychometrics: the science of measuring individual differences (that is, our unique personal characteristics). Typically, psychometrics involves gathering multiple responses related to a characteristic to ensure you’re …