{"id":1615,"date":"2018-07-24T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T00:24:54","slug":"avoiding-money-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Money Decisions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/One-year-after-the-Fed-liftoff-Consequences-for-emerging-markets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/One-year-after-the-Fed-liftoff-Consequences-for-emerging-markets-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Many of us, even if trained in the field, often struggle with decisions about our finances and retirement. \u00a0Thinking about money opens the door to discomfort for most,m as Tim Herrarra for the New York Times states in his article, \u00a0<strong><span class=\"balancedHeadline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/23\/smarter-living\/financial-decisions.html\">A Smarter Way to Think About Financial Decisions<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These feelings span all levels of financial training, \u00a0&#8220;I have a Ph.D. in business and an M.B.A. in finance, on top of a degree in architecture, so I think I can understand financial products pretty well,\u201d Professor Sela said. \u201cBut still, every time I get a letter from my bank, my instinct is to shove it in some drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How do we reframe our thinking and make these decisions easier? \u00a0Try picturing the questions from a lifestyle vs. solely financial product view, such as, I would love to visit Paris or take a cruise around the world, as opposed to just choosing which annuity would suit you best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us, even if trained in the field, often struggle with decisions about our finances and retirement. \u00a0Thinking about money opens the door to discomfort for most,m as Tim Herrarra for the New York Times states in his article, \u00a0A Smarter Way to Think About Financial Decisions. \u00a0 These feelings span all levels of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Money Decisions?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[949,1184,845,1183,469,406,30,352],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-accounting","category-financial-coaching","tag-annuity","tag-finance","tag-financial-decisions","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york-times","tag-personal-finances","tag-retirement","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}