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What does your dream vacation look like?
Are you picturing the white sandy beaches of a tropical island?
Maybe lush wilderness, ancient ruins, or a glittering city?
If you’re like many folks, you want luxury and a longer stay for your next vacation.1
You may even want to connect, heal, or finally experience that once-in-a-lifetime adventure.2
Those are just some of the most popular trends in travel these days.
Remember when Marie Kondo took the world by storm with her tidying up routine? Maybe not quite, but let’s roll with it. Her idea is that we can improve our lives by removing clutter and items that no longer “spark joy.”
We can apply similar principles to our financial lives. In this month's Visual Insights Newsletter I've included a 7 point checklist to declutter your financial life.
No doubt we are all eager to leave 2020 in the past. Still, we can take something from the last year and use it to make our lives better in 2021. Those "Life Lessons" are the focus of this month’s Visual Insights Newsletter.
How often do you wish you could go back to simpler times?
41% of us say life is worse today than it was 50 years ago.(1)
Experts disagree, though. They say now is the greatest time in history to be alive.
We look at why life today is better than ever in this month's newsletter, view it here.
I hope you receive some perspective from it.
In this month's newsletter, we look at the power of gratitude in uncertain times.
When we appreciate the good things we have in life, we can weather stress far better.
Eric Maldonado, CFP®, MBA
Aquila Wealth Advisors
Here's some good news I'd like to pass along for this week:
A New Jersey hospital once described as a “war zone” now has zero COVID-19 patients.
17 COVID-19 vaccines are in human trials. At least one may be ready for approval by the end of 2020.
250 million trees were recently planted in northern India.
Uplifting stories are out there; I just thought I'd pass a few along.
At the end of 2019, Congress passed the most sweeping change to retirement rules in over a decade.(1)
Known as the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act), this legislation went into effect on January 1, 2020, and impacts retirement and estate planning rules.
Here are a few of the biggest takeaways from the Act:
RMDs Now Start at Age 72
Do you know why bear markets happen?
Or what you should do during them?
If you wait till it happens, like the titanic, it’s too late. It’s important to do the lifeboat drills before you need them.
Use this newsletter as your bear market lifeboat drills.
In this issue of the Aquila Wealth Newsletter, we’ll explore these questions and much more, giving you the facts about bear markets. Click here to check it out!
In this week's personal financial newsletter installment, I have a couple articles to highlight from my reading -- Home Ownership vs. The Stock Market and An Under Appreciated Way to Save Big Money -- Your Car(s)
