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Terry Hill & Associates Introduces Our Blue Dolphin Planning Process
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau A Comprehensive Approach to Financial Independence & Quality of Life To sustain a long and happy life after...
Read More5 Ways to a Happier Retirement
Picture this-it's Friday afternoon, your work is done, and you have the weekend ahead of you. But what makes this weekend different than any other weekend is that two-week vacation following it. You wish your colleagues well, they...
Read MoreFrom The Desk of Terry Hill
From The Desk of Terry Hill Like many of you, my family and I had a wonderful time celebrating the Fourth of July holiday weekend. When I was growing up, the Fourth seemed mostly about barbeques, friends, hanging out at the pool, and...
Read MoreMeasuring the Value of Financial Advice
Measuring the Value of Financial Advice
Read MoreThe Power of Positive Emotions
Positive emotions affect us in many interesting ways. They change your mental processes, the way you perceive the world and your behavior.*1 To illustrate this let me lead you through a quick exercise. First close your eyes and think...
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The Incredible Power of Vision and Our Founding Fathers
The Incredible Power of Vision and Our Founding Fathers "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -Peter Drucker With Independence Day almost upon us I think about our founding fathers who had a powerful shared vision that...
Read MoreThe Five Reasons to Hire a Financial Advisor
Recently, I came across an article written by Sallie Krawcheck, past president of Merrill Lynch US Trust and Smith Barney that does an excellent job of describing the reasons to hire a Financial Advisor. This view is not one that is...
Read MoreThe Power of Gratitude
The Power of Gratitude “If you rejoice in the way things are, the whole world will belong to you” Lao Tzu. I once read a story about a recent immigrant to the United States. He was asked what the biggest surprise was when...
Read MoreWhat Makes Us Happy
"True wealth is what money cannot buy and death cannot take away." -anonymousIn a previous article I outlined the science of happiness and the “American Myth” which is the belief that the more money we have the happier we will be. The...
Read MoreMoney and Happiness
“Happiness resides not in possessions and gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul”- Democritus Recently I read an article about a successful investment banker that raised some interesting questions in my mind. The article...
Read MoreThe Science of Happiness
What Makes People the Happiest? Clue: It’s not money Does more money make people happy? Scientists are currently exploring that question and the results might -surprise you. As a financial advisor I became interested in the new science...
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