{"id":2295,"date":"2023-11-29T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialgravityfamilyofficeservices.com\/margulin\/uncategorized\/when-making-new-years-resolutions-be-specific\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:00:38","slug":"when-making-new-years-resolutions-be-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialgravityfamilyofficeservices.com\/margulin\/family-office\/when-making-new-years-resolutions-be-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"When Making New Year\u2019s Resolutions, Be Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know the vast majority of New Year\u2019s resolutions fail, and they often fail fast. About one-fourth fail in the first week of January. 80% of new gym memberships are canceled within five months. It\u2019s a game we play with ourselves; after all, what\u2019s so special about the new year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real change requires real change agency. Often, that comes in the form of a change in relationship status, or career, or location. Any financial advisor will tell you that when there\u2019s marriage, or divorce, a new child, or a new job, people get focused on their financial lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, they do. New research published just last September showed that the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 is now almost $240,000. Add to that the $104,108 for an average four-year degree (it can be over $233,000 for a private school). At a half million per kid, it\u2019s no wonder that people think about money when a new bundle of joy appears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a very similar emotional state when you buy or sell a home, and particularly when you buy. The endless credit checks and forms and disclosures\u2026it\u2019s like a full-body exam for your finances. You have to dig out every statement and confront the reality of your security in retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recruiting Daily reports that only 6% of people change jobs for a higher salary or financial security. However, you still have to transfer your 401(k) or roll it over and make your benefit elections, including supplemental life insurance. You\u2019re forced to consider long-term care and disability, two massive threats to your financial well-being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life changes like relationships, jobs, and location are pretty much in your face, but there is also something about the New Year. The Holidays are an emotional time, and they often involve complicated planning, complex relationships, and serious spending. It\u2019s a physical\/emotional\/financial triple whammy that puts most people in a reflective mood about their entire life condition, not just the state of their finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the normal end-of-year considerations, we also have to concede that 2023 was, by most measures, a very trying year: inflation, rising interest rates, international conflict, and civil discord. On top of all that, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IRS has released tax brackets for the 2023 tax year that have upper limits 7% higher than the brackets for 2022 returns. That\u2019s known as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bracket creep<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, another effect of high inflation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Right Resolutions Make All The Difference\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Putting all that together, it seems pretty likely that lots of folks will be making New Year\u2019s resolutions in the coming weeks. Many of those resolutions will be about finances. If those resolutions will be looking to bring new discipline to retirement planning and preparation, we should approach things with optimism; after all, discipline is a choice, not a punishment. It doesn\u2019t have to be an awful prospect. Quite the opposite, it can and should be a positive and life-affirming process\u2014if we make resolutions that actually have a chance of success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, we should realize that we can\u2019t do anything about inflation or any of the other downers from this year. But there\u2019s a lot we can do to make 2024, and the years following, more positive by fixing the structural problems in financial accounts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">90+% of New Year\u2019s resolutions fail because they are tactical in nature. They are not specific enough, they don\u2019t require structural change, their time horizon is too vague, and there is no link to the things that truly matter. Will your life really change in any meaningful way if you lose 10 pounds? Will it matter if you gain them back in Spring?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bigger problem with making financial resolutions is that the wrong resolutions are being made. A survey from November of 2022 found that those who make financial resolutions typically make <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tactical <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resolutions: pay off credit card debt, save for a new car or house, build an emergency fund, reduce spending, or invest more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tactical resolutions might be long the feel-good factor, but they could fail if they don\u2019t address the more significant issues that keep your nest egg from compounding as it could. You can pay off debt and save more, but if your investments don\u2019t grow after taxes, inflation, and fees, you won\u2019t be getting much further ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to make changes that can actually change your life, consider these resolutions for 2024:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will only work with true fiduciaries\u2014professionals who are legally obligated to put my interests first.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will have my CPA conduct a thorough analysis of my affairs to make sure I\u2019m legally and ethically avoiding taxes on income, gains, and, possibly, my estate.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will have an insurance fiduciary assess my risks, including disability and long-term care, and make sure my coverages match my risks.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will implement an investing program I can stick with, no matter what the markets throw at me.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem with going to the gym is you have to keep going forever. If you lose the weight, you have to keep it off. But with the kind of resolutions suggested above, you can essentially set it and forget it. You\u2019ll have changed the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">structure<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of your finances; you have arranged things so that compounding can work its magic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compound Interest: The Eighth Wonder Of The World<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To fully realize the importance of tactical versus strategic resolution setting, let\u2019s do a little experiment. Let\u2019s say this is your status quo:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You earn 8% on average every year on your investment portfolio of $100.000. Sounds good. But your advisors and industry products cost you 3%, so you\u2019re down to 5%. Half of your gains are in taxable accounts, which means 25% of your gains in those accounts go to federal and state governments. So now you\u2019re down to 4%. Inflation could be expected to be 3%. So, your net gain is 1% per year. Your money will double every 72 years in real terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tactical resolutions to pay down debt and save more could be a good thing. You make that resolution, follow through on it, and it allows you to invest an additional $5,000 per year. Growing at 1%, you\u2019ll have a total account real, after inflation value of $232,114.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, let\u2019s say you make strategic resolutions about your money. Let\u2019s say you cut your costs in half to 1.5%, and you employ tax-forward investing and portfolio management strategies that reduce your taxes to just 5% of your gains per year. You now have a net gain of 3.3% per year and a real account value of $329,956 20 years later. That\u2019s 42% more money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are key takeaways here. An obvious one is that inflation is a returns killer. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to change inflation; your only option is to stay invested and presume that the stocks you own will keep pace. But if you can cut your costs and improve your tax efficiency, which you can control, you can enjoy a very positive outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One last piece of advice: before you make any resolutions, take careful stock of exactly where you are. Make the effort to learn what your real costs really are. Ask your CPA just how tax-efficient you are. Examine your portfolio to make sure you can live with the ups and downs that will surely come your way. When you know where you are and where you want to go, you have all the ingredients you need to make a successful journey possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of New Year&#8217;s resolutions, particularly those regarding fitness and finance, often fail rapidly, a trend reflecting our overestimation of a new year&#8217;s transformative power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-office"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When Making New Year\u2019s Resolutions, Be Specific - Steve Margulin \u2014 Family Office Director<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The majority of New Year&#039;s resolutions, particularly those regarding fitness and finance, often fail rapidly, a trend reflecting our overestimation of a new year&#039;s transformative power. 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