Elite Wealth Planning

Exceptionally affluent families can use a wide variety of elite wealth planning strategies regularly used by the super-rich as legal tactics and financial products as approaches become more mainstream. These reports are provided is association with Virtual Family Office Inner Circle, a global financial concierge group engaged in research on strategies for addressing key concerns of successful families.

Wealth Management

Elite Wealth Planning — What it is, Why it Matters

Elite wealth planning can play a key role in the lives of today’s highly successful individuals and families — as well as those who are on the path toward great professional success. With that in mind, here’s a closer look at just what elite wealth planning is — how it works and how it can potentially have a powerful impact on your life and your family as you seek to build, preserve and protect your wealth and your legacy. 
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Finding the Right Wealth Manager

It can be a daunting task to evaluate the expertise and experience of a wealth management professional you meet before engaging them to work with you. Even after you begin work, it may be tough to discern whether you’re getting the both the level of professional and personalized advice you must have in order to build and protect your family wealth according to your goals, values and dreams. 
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When Is an Advisor an Elite Wealth Professional?

Many financial advisors call themselves “wealth managers.” In many cases, this descriptor is right — it fairly describes what that professional is. Most of the time, it’s just marketing jargon. You must determine for yourself whether a financial advisor you may engage is a professional and among the best. You need the leader of a team with outstanding abilities — and why wouldn’t you? But it’s very difficult to figure out whether a particular financial advisor you meet is an elite professional. 
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Finding Client-Centric Financial Professionals

It’s common for financial professionals and big industry firms to advertise “how well” they focus on their clients — and with good reason: After all, you’re much more likely to consider working with people in just about any capacity who claim that they will make the experience “all about you.” 
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Working With the Right Advisor

These days, too many successful, affluent individuals and families are simply not getting the advice that’s most appropriate to help them achieve their key financial and wealth goals. There are a number of reasons for this. But one main culprit is that, overall, there are a relatively small number of financial advisors we would describe as extremely talented and deeply caring wealth management professionals. So it’s a good time to ask yourself: How good is the financial advice I’m getting these days? 
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Why Consider Advanced Wealth Planning?

It can be all too easy to focus on just one aspect of your financial life, like investing — and in doing so, miss opportunities and overlook risks that could negatively impact your family and the lifestyle and legacy that you hoped to enjoy. That’s where wealth planning comes in. Advanced wealth planning examines your complete financial picture — not just the investments, although they’re important, of course, but also examines related needs connected with enhancing, protecting, preserving, and passing on wealth. 
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Purpose-Driven Integrated Wealth Planning

Essential for successful wealth outcomes is having clarity and focus on the full picture to help you achieve the life you envision. Returns are important, but the broader picture must come first. Why? Successful outcomes — whether in investing, in business, in life — rarely happen by luck. When you’re clear-eyed about where you want to go and what could get in your way along your life journey, you can both create a better framework and build in better contingency alternatives. 
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Time To Stress Test Your Wealth Planning?

One of the better ideas to take from the financial playbook of the highly affluent wealthy is working with trusted professionals to help manage your financial and lifestyle concerns. But, as that wealthy group knows, you don’t stop there. Periodically the financial advice you get — and the financial solutions you’ve relied on for years — need to be reassessed. 
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Choosing the Best Executor for Your Estate

Here’s an uncomfortable reality you must come to accept: Someday — hopefully in the distant future — you are going to die. The good news: You can make that event easier on your family and heirs by taking a few simple steps. One of the best ways, financially, to prepare today for that day is to choose who will be the executor of your estate for yourself. Unfortunately, that is a frequently overlooked or under appreciated aspect of estate planning—which can spell trouble for your family and your wealth if not done or if not done thoughtfully. 
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Cohesive Wealth Management Teams

HERE’S WHY YOU MAY NEED ONE – Chances are, you know that you likely need the expertise of multiple professionals to pursue ideal financial results in your life and for your family. That’s because finding a single professional with the depth and breadth of knowledge and experience required to effectively address all of your wealth management needs and wants—especially in complex situations—can be like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. 
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The Power of Purpose in Reaching Audacious Goals

We find that people who have reached unusually high levels of success and built significant wealth in the process tend to share key traits that are responsible for their outstanding results. One of the most important traits is a strong sense of purpose that drives the choices they make. There is typically a close connection between having a strong sense of purpose and achieving excellence in reaching beneficial goals. 
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What Are Your Biggest Financial Concerns?

It goes without saying that you play the decisive role in making the choices that will determine whether you will realize your financial dreams. That’s why it makes sense to have true clarity about the specific financial issues and concerns that are most important to you and those you care about. Only then can you take informed steps for action. 
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The Essentials of Wise Estate Planning

You certainly spend time planning how to give your family a good life with your assets in the here and now—things like travel and college. But are you likely not thinking much about planning how to distribute a lifetime of assets and to prepare those you deeply care about for what needs to be done after you’re gone? Even if you made substantial progress in the past (while many have made none), your estate and legacy planning could be a little—perhaps even a lot—dated or maybe no longer relevant. 
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Why Your Estate Plan May Need An Update

Estate planning — the process for deciding how you will transfer your wealth to heirs and others in ways that makes an impact — is important for anyone who wants to assure that their loved ones are adequately provided for and taken care of in the right ways. Done well, estate planning aims both to allow you to pass on your assets as you see fit, and to minimize the probate, state and federal tax bite that may accompany the transfer of significant wealth. 
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Tax-Wise Charitable Giving, with Informed Planning

Americans — especially the affluent and wealthy — are among the most charitable people in the world. Chances are, you may support causes, communities, or organizations that are important to you and lives you want to touch. Here’s how to evaluate the effectiveness of the contributions you give — along with approaches that could potentially magnify and leverage your philanthropy many times over. 
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Feeling Philanthropic? A Charitable Planning Primer

Do you want to make a major impact on a charity or cause that you care deeply about? Do you want to do well financially by doing good for others? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. One top financial issue we hear about from individuals and families we work with is charitable giving—how to do it well, and how to do it better. 
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The Power of Charitable Remainder Trusts

A growing number of individuals and families want to use some of their wealth to support the causes and organizations they care about most. From helping those less fortunate to facilitating scientific breakthroughs, from promoting spiritual causes to sharing the arts, philanthropy is a core value for many. Here’s a closer look at one philanthropic tool that many charitably minded people and families use: charitable remainder trusts. CRTs can be extremely useful and powerful wealth planning tools that allow you to have a major impact on a charity you value while also providing benefits like lower taxes and a regular income stream for retirement. 
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Testing Your Wealth Planning for Stressful Times

When making critical planning decisions, knowing steps that extremely affluent families often take to protect and securely grow their wealth may also apply to you. Consider the technique of “stress testing,” for example. Stress testing is a process that
carefully examines the wealth strategies you already have in place to assess how well or the likelihood that they’ll deliver the results you expected in a range of different environments. 
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Do You Know Your High-Net-Worth Personality?

One of the best ways to make informed decisions about your wealth is to work with professionals who are able to connect with you and relate to you. You want to surround yourself with specialists who know you well enough to really “get” what you want your wealth to accomplish and why. 
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Three Big Fears of the Ultra Wealthy
– and How They Deal With Them

Significant wealth can reduce many troubles in life—but trouble can’t be eliminated. Even the richest have things they fear. More to the point: many of those fears, worries and concerns are the same as the rest of us. But there is one difference. In our experience working with the Ultra Wealthy — people with a net worth of at least $500 million — frequently take highly effective steps to address those worries and, quite often, overcome them. So here’s a look at three fears these people tell us they struggle with — and some ways they combat those concerns. 
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Big Wealth Mistakes the Ultra Affluent Avoid

No one is perfect—certainly not even the smartest or famous investors or managers. But some are better than others at perfecting their critical outcomes from strategically planned decisions. Consider studies of the self-made ultra – affluent – a group we define as those with a net worth of $500 million and above earned primarily due to their business activities. Most extremely wealthy individuals have made costly wealth mistakes in their past. 
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How the Affluent Navigate Financial Storms

Media news is a constant reminder that while financial markets mostly go up, they don’t always. Inevitably, severe downward market volatility from some event that no one ever unexpected happens. Events, whether weather or wars or whatever, are for the most part unpredictable. Market history teaches that big events negatively impacting markets will continue and so unpredictable big surprises will continue. 
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Why You Need a ‘Business Plan’ for Your Family

How is a family like a business? Both need smart planning to succeed, survive and thrive. The fact is, it’s harder to raise kids in the digital age when communities aren’t as tight-knit as they once were. As the rising rate of suicide among teens reveals, children are both struggling more and feeling less certain about how to cope with their problems. But you can turn the tide. Learn how to create a family plan that can potentially strengthen existing parent-child bonds, repair any bridges that need fixing, and instill more resiliency and competency in your kids. The end result: A better family dynamic that empowers children to overcome those moments when they struggle — without resorting to dangerous behaviors that could turn them into a statistic. 
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Making Wealth Management Decisions as a Couple

When making decisions about planning your wealth and finances, how often do you and your spouse (or partner) work together as a team to arrive at a place where you’re both happy? Consider that spouses report higher relationship quality and stability when they feel they are both involved in financial decisions, planning, and processes. With that in mind, here’s a look at what you can do to better ensure that you and your spouse are working as true partners toward your most important financial goals. 
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The Value of Multigenerational Family Meetings

The decisions families make about their wealth—how to manage, transfer and spend it—can lead to serious conflicts among family members. With affluence comes the risk of family in-fighting that can damage a family’s financial position and even ruin intra-family relationships forever. The good news: It doesn’t have to be that way. Discover a formal process used by ultra-wealthy families to educate heirs and potential heirs about sound financial decision-making, to identify shared family financial values and to maintain (and grow) family wealth in a unified and harmonious manner. 
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“We, the Family”: The Benefits of a Family Constitution

Combining wealth and family can be tricky. Affluence can help families realize a shared vision and achieve great things. But wealth without shared values and goals can lead to resentments and conflicts causing estrangement among members and so damage the family’s financial position. What’s more, wealthy families grow and enlarge over time. Keeping both family members and their shared capital together can become a difficult challenge. 
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Family Challenges of Giving — and Receiving — Wealth

While most people would agree that having more money is better than having less money, simply having more than enough money does not assure a successful, happy, or even a good life. This is apparent among many who have inherited significant family wealth and wasted it. Affluent parents and grandparents rightfully worry about the potential negative impact of giving or leaving too much wealth to their kids too soon. 
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The Benefits of Building a Family Brand

Every successful company develops a brand that comes to express the values and culture of its organization. The brand symbolizes their identity. But chances are, most people never think about how their family is expressing their values and culture — particularly, what values their family stand for (or ideally could or should be), and how their culture communicates those values to their community. A family may want to consider a way to communicate and reinforce its own values and mission rather than just conform and become like the world they live in. 
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Five Big Retirement Money Mistakes to Avoid

Managing your retirement resources requires an entire series of financial planning decisions that must be thoughtfully made both before and throughout retirement. Unfortunately, few families develop a systematic approach to prepare for those decisions and how best to arrange making them. Mistakes can be made that will irreversibly impact your future security and well-being. 
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Wealth Planning for Age 90, 100 — and Beyond

Thanks to better care from advances in modern medical technology, people in America are living longer and enjoying better health than ever. Some experts — like Harvard University Professor of Genetics David Sinclair, author of Why We Age — And Why We Don’t Have To — even proffer that “there is no biological limit, no law that says we must die at a certain age.” 
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Smart Money Moves
While You’re Still Mentally Sharp

As we age, we tend to lose some of our cognitive abilities—and that, in turn, can cause us to make financial decisions that aren’t in our best interests. Every year nowadays, an older client of our firm begins losing their ability to reason well and insists on making bad decisions. It does not end well. 
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Preparing Heirs for Their Inheritance

Inheriting money comes with plenty of benefits. From being less stressed about paying for life’s necessities to enjoying more than a few luxuries of affluence, inheritors often find that many of life’s stumbling blocks are no longer in their paths. That said, an inheritance does not automatically mean an easy, worry-free life. Inheriting substantial wealth often create unique challenges and conflicts for your family. 
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Transferring Both Values and Wealth to Heirs

Many families have thought about how to best transfer their wealth to heirs, hopefully far in the future. Unfortunately, many parents and grandparents with significant assets often don’t spend nearly enough time making a serious effort to pass along, while they are alive, the values that enabled them to build, grow and maintain all that wealth. A resulting “values vacuum” usually leads to big problems when heirs actually inherit large sums. 
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Here’s How to Address the Financial Literacy Problem

The percentage of American adults with strong financial literacy — the ability to understand financial, investment, and insurance-related concepts and apply them — has fallen to historically low levels. This is prompting more families to push for greater financial literacy among children and younger Americans to help reverse recent trends. And indeed, if you have children or grandchildren, there’s likely a lot you can do to instill financial smarts in your heirs so they are above average. 
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Financial Planning for a Special Needs Child

Raising children and grandchildren is challenging in the best of circumstances. But when a child has special needs or a disability, the hurdles can look more like mountains and the potholes can feel more like bottomless pits. The good news: There are savvy financial moves that parents and grandparents of special needs children can make that may potentially deliver big benefits to both themselves and their kids — today, tomorrow and down the road. 
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Solo After 50: Navigating a “Gray Divorce”

Bill and Melinda Gates weren’t a typical couple. But they are part of an increasingly common trend: divorce among people over the age of 50. “Gray divorces” among older and (usually) long-married couples have been on the rise for some time. While the divorce rate is falling among younger Americans, the rate for those age 50 and older has doubled since the 1990s. 
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Safeguarding Assets from an Ex-Spouse

Marriage is one of life’s biggest milestones. Unfortunately, for many couples, so is divorce. That’s why it makes sense to consider how an upcoming wedding — be it yours or that of a child or grandchild — could impact both your current wealth and your wealth planning goals. 
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How Playing the Long Game Can Grow Success
& Wealth

Many extremely wealthy people have a much better handle than most on a key concept of achieving success: playing the long game. For them, the long game begins with a clear vision of their ideal future down the road — that may be years or even decades from now — and taking carefully considered, action steps at every stage along the way specifically aligned with their vision that enhances their ability to get there. 
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Common Asset Protection Planning Mistakes — and Avoiding Them

If you have a successful business or substantial assets, you may be a target for frivolous lawsuits. That’s why it’s so important to consider asset protection strategies that can create barriers to protect your family’s wealth. Asset protection planning employs legally accepted concepts and strategies, as well as certain financial products, to ensure a person’s wealth is not unjustly taken from him or her. 
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Asset Protection Planning: A Wall Around Wealth

Success can come with a major downside: It can make you a potential magnet for lawsuits — including frivolous and unfounded ones — and other attacks that can wreak havoc on your financial health and stability. Indeed, you may very well know someone in your life who has been sued. Maybe it was you! That means you must take steps to protect the assets you’ve worked so hard to build from being unjustly taken. Otherwise, you may jeopardize your financial security and that of your company and your family. 
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Shield Your Wealth with Asset Protection Strategies

If you’re a high-income professional or entrepreneur — or if you simply have a substantial net worth — you probably realize that in today’s litigious culture, you could be an attractive target for unfounded or frivolous lawsuits. But what have you done to actually reduce the risk of losing your wealth if you get sued? In our experience, far too many affluent individuals and families don’t act to protect their assets, livelihoods and lifestyles. 
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Financial Uncertainty When the Unexpected Hits

Serious life challenges, often unimaginable, happen unexpectedly. A sudden job loss, a terminal diagnosis, a divorce summons, a huge lawsuit directed at you, some natural disaster that wrecks your home or business—any of these may cause not only traumatic distress but can make your entire financial future uncertain at the same time. 
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Sudden Wealth — What If You Strike It Rich?

While sudden wealth may sound like a dream come true, it’s often accompanied by serious challenges resulting from the “sudden” aspect of that money. With sudden wealth, everything about being rich — the good and the bad — happens all at once. In contrast, most people who build wealth slowly are able to address issues and concerns incrementally over time. 
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Risk Management

Do You Need a Personal Umbrella Policy?

One night, your son borrows your car to go out with friends. While speeding down a road, he loses control on ice — killing one passenger and seriously injuring two others. What would happen to your finances if you’re sued by the families of the victims? Or what if your dog is provoked by a stranger trespassing on your property and bites the person in self-defense — but the person still sues you? These and similar scenarios are both horrific and all too possible. 
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Three Questions to Answer Before You Purchase Life Insurance

Life insurance can be an extremely important, even essential, part of your financial planning. Its most attractive aspect for most individuals and families is the policy death benefit—the guaranteed money that the insurance company pays out in the event of the insured’s demise. But navigating the life insurance landscape can be tricky — and people often make costly mistakes. In order to make smart life insurance decisions, there are three questions you need to ask yourself and answer. 
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Smart Ways to Build a Moat Around Your Wealth

Have you taken steps to protect the assets you have worked so hard to build? Chances are, you know someone who has been sued. Maybe that someone is you. The fact is, your enviable position as a successful person comes with a major downside: You’re a potential magnet for lawsuits—which may very well be frivolous and unfounded—and other attacks that can wreak havoc on your financial health. That means you need to take steps to protect the assets you’ve worked so hard to build. Otherwise, you may jeopardize the financial security of yourself and your family. 
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Smart Ways to Take Control of a Trust

As you may know, trusts can be a good tool for minimizing taxes, transferring wealth and protecting assets. You may have already set up a trust, or you may hold an inheritance you received in a trust created decades ago. One challenge can arise when families give up more control over their trusts than they need to, which can potentially put their goals for their trusts at risk. This report, Smart Ways to Take Control of a Trust, sets out three options for helping ensure that you’re in the driver’s seat when it comes to maximizing your trust’s effectiveness. 
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Lifestyle Management

Six Keys to Optimizing Your Heath, Longevity and Well-Being

It’s pretty safe to say that everyone wants to experience optimal health. It’s also pretty safe to say that most of us know some steps we should be taking to enjoy those benefits — but that we too often don’t bother. Bad habits are hard to change. Enter Shawn Wells, a leading nutritional biochemist and dietitian. His book, The Energy Formula, lays out six critical steps that can potentially help you gain focus, be more productive and unleash your full potential. 
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Managing Your Health in a Covid-Impacted World

Regardless of how Covid-19 has affected your family’s health, chances are that it has made a difference in the health care you receive and are able to access. We asked Dan Carlin, M.D., CEO and founder of concierge telemedical practice WorldClinic, for some of the biggest health care-related lessons that he thinks will come out of pandemic shutdowns and the implications for all of us going forward. 
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The Power of Purpose from Connectedness

Most people would like to know how to live more fulfilling lives, foster happier families, create and manage stronger teams, and have happier clients and customers. Can you imagine what life would be like where those outcomes could become a reality? Some good news: one way to pursue those results has substantial research to show how it is possible. The key is connectedness—a concept pioneered and championed by world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Ned Hallowell. 
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Navigating Credit Card Reward Post-COVID and Beyond

The pandemic event impacted people’s financial lives in ways both large and small. For many, it’s changed how we spend our money, and therefore how we accumulate and use those oh-so-desirable rewards doled out by our credit card companies, travel reward programs and the like. With that in mind, we reached out to the experts at Bankrate.com for a look at the current credit card rewards landscape—as well as how it might look going forward—and some ideas for how you might best navigate the future. 
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Best Practices for Successful Work from Home

The number of at-home workers has skyrocketed this year as the novel coronavirus caused companies across the country to be locked down and forced to have their employees work from home whenever possible. As a result, some business experts are suggesting that remote working — already a well-established trend — will become an increasingly common way for many companies and their employees to get the job done. If so, you may find yourself working remotely more and more — either by choice or by necessity. And if you manage employees, you need to oversee and motivate your teams from a distance. 
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Virtual Experiences We Think You’ll Love

When COVID-19 first hit, closures and lockdowns made virtual resources the only way to see certain sites — drawing in viewers to virtual zoo tours and the like. A Forbes article reported that the number of searches for the term “virtual tour” soared from 1,300 in February 2020 to nearly 10,000 the following month, when cities and countries began locking down. But even though many more places and businesses are now open to the public in some form or another, it seems that virtual experiences due to bigger screens may have staying power. 
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Finding the Right Work-Life Balance

The “work first, life second” mantra guides far too many of us these days — from driven entrepreneurs to ladder-climbing professionals to overcommitted parents. One result: little to no time for spouses, family, friends, self-care and other vital parts of living our best lives and enjoying an abundant lifestyle. 
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Work Smarter – Not Harder!

Reclaim your time and energy to live your best life. Each of us has just 168 hours per week to accomplish our tasks and goals—at work, at home and out in the community. If you feel like you spend too much of that time on things that don’t add value to your life, you’re not alone. The good news: It’s easier than ever to generate stronger results, both personally and professionally, while actually making less effort. 
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Buy Experiences, Not More Stuff. Here’s Why.

When we spend money, we’re doing more than simply buying things. We create feelings of happiness, satisfaction and well-being for ourselves. But are we spending money in ways that are really achieving those results? The answer, unfortunately, is probably not much
or even most of the time. As one world-famous Japanese “tidying expert” might say, our spending habits don’t spark joy. The good news: We can adjust the way we spend so our purchases deepen our happiness and help us experience more satisfaction in our lives. 
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A Common Sense Guide to Heart Health

It’s been said that a man with health has a thousand dreams, while a man with no health has but one. Don’t you owe it to yourself, your family, your career and your community to have not only a thousand dreams, but also the energy and engagement to make them happen?
Few would dispute that, to live our best lives, we need to be healthy enough to be fully engaged with our jobs, our loved ones and the world around us. And yet, how many of us regularly forsake lifestyle choices that could help us achieve great things? We may be proactive in other parts of our lives, but we wait until there is a problem to pay attention to our own health. 
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What to Do When Your Doctor Has Bad News

Certainly, none of us ever wants to face a medical crisis. However, it’s quite likely that you or a loved one will someday receive a serious health diagnosis. And when that happens, it’s important to know what to do. See how to get a handle on the best steps to take to smooth out the treatment process, along with how to find the help you would need 
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Insightful Questions That Can Ramp Up Your Success

We all find ourselves in conversations where it’s important to connect with and understand the other person while still communicating our own aims and point of view. The secret is to ask very insightful questions—and then to be an engaged listener. Gain insight into the most important questions you can ask, along with why, how and when to ask them, to build rapport and increase the chance of generating positive outcomes. 
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Estate Planning: Don’t Forget Your Pet!

If you are part of the 68 percent of U.S. households that own a pet,* you probably think of it as a true member of the family—one you love and cherish. But what would happen to that cherished family member if you died suddenly? Have you taken any steps to ensure the family dog, cat, horse or other animal will be well taken care of if it outlives you? 
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