Security is a feeling… not a number


Carl Richards is a Certified Financial Planner™ and creator of the Sketch Guy column, appearing weekly in The New York Times since 2010.  The following article is reproduced with permission from his weekly newsletter and his website can be found here.

Greetings, Carl here.

Here’s a paradox:

1- I know people who have more money than they will ever need but are totally insecure.
2- I know people who have almost nothing but are totally secure.

The conclusion this forces me to draw is that if security exists at all, it is a feeling… not a number.

The good news is that means we can have some control over it.

The bad news is that means it’s up to us to learn how.

-Carl

P.S. As always, if you want to use this week’s sketch, you can buy it here.

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