According to a recent study, 90% of Americans will spend more time planning for vacation than they spend planning for retirement. Similarly, we often observe firsthand how many do not truly know where their money is spent; and they do not devote time to gain more clarity about it. Life becomes a foggy trip without rich meaning.
No one purposely sets out to have an undefined financial life… it just happens to us as we become a part of the culture in which we live. It’s human nature which spans all of time; we repeat actions generation after generation. One of the wisest men to ever live, Solomon, offers sage points in the Bible’s Ecclesiastes which can be simplified to these thoughts: