CRUCIBLES FAMILY DYNAMICS by Andy Bernstein Maybe your kids or your parents are driving you crazy. Maybe your marriage is strained, or your extended family is engaged in a civil war. But someone you are related to is pushing your buttons, and you want it to stop. You have three options: 1. Get them to…
You want to live a happy life. If you approach your happiness as an investment — you have a certain amount of time and energy to put into it, and you want that to grow into something bigger — it makes sense to explore what one of the fathers of modern investing had to say…
CRUCIBLES PARENTING by Andy Bernstein Parenting is hard. It’s hard because of the crushing lack of sleep, the extraordinary financial demands, and the constant tension between our needs and theirs. It’s hard because of the awesome responsibility of shaping another human life, for better and for worse. And it’s hard because, even though we love…
CRUCIBLES Wealth Management by Andy Bernstein What is the key to improving advisor performance in a polarized and disrupted world? One answer comes from Google. When Google wanted to improve their workforce, they crunched the numbers, assuming that the best performance was coming from teams with the most talented individuals. But the numbers told a…
CRUCIBLES RELATIONSHIPS by Andy Bernstein The Appalachian Trail is a 2,194-mile footpath stretching from Maine to Georgia. It looks like this: Imagine you’re going to hike it. You’re excited! It will take you 5-7 months to complete. When it’s finally time to start, this is the map you’re given: Good luck out there! Hiking The…
