A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.
Be the Bird is a simple, approachable roadmap for both solving Your financial puzzle for retirement and learning how to remain relaxed and confident for the long term..
So, I also show you how to cultivate a feeling of relaxed confidence in Your financial life-a feeling that eludes all too many.
Having a great plan (with great products) is not sufficient on its own.
And I don\'t stop there.
I also show you how to weave those threads together, all while avoiding the most costly and problematic products.
In the pages of this book, I lay out key retirement, tax, insurance, and investing strategies in an approachable and practical way.
Many people in the industry are decent-but it\'s a distorted system rife with troubling conflicts of interest due to the prevailing compensation models.
But we also know, or we can at least sense, that the Retirement Advice Industrial Complex will do and say almost anything to get us to buy, and most of what they\'re peddling is toxic waste.
We know we need help.
While building up our Assets is simple enough, transitioning into retirement ratchets up the stakes, risks, and complexity. - Charlie Wardle Most pre-retirees and retirees feel understandably ambivalent about seeking financial advice.
A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings