Emotional Balance Sheet with Paul Fenner

The Plan I Wrote Fifteen Years Ago


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What if the long-term financial plan I built five years ago is now describing a family I no longer have?

That is the question I have been sitting with. December 9, 2010, is the day my triplets were born, and the day I founded TAMMA. Fifteen years in, I can tell you neither plan I wrote that day survived. And that was never the goal.

In this episode, I share the number of short runs I did not account for in my own life, walk through a family that has been through five major transitions in five years, and unpack why senior professionals can be sophisticated about iterative planning at work and unsophisticated about it at home. The conflict is not capability; it's flexibility that is a maintenance burden, and most plans have nobody carrying it.

The action step this week takes fifteen minutes. Name the last three transitions your family went through in the past five years. Then ask, for each one, what financial decisions in your current plan still assume you are the person you were before. That is the work.

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Resources Featured in This Episode:

Preparing for the Next Life Chapter

Wealth Planning is For Everyone

Funded Contentment

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Emotional Balance Sheet with Paul FennerBy Paul Fenner

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