184 | Spokes and Hubs

Investment management. Insurance products. Tax planning.

These are the spokes that our industry has turned into hubs of our relationship with money.

By marketing them. By charging for them. By discussing them ad nauseam. By making them more complicated than they ever needed to be.

When you try to make a spoke the hub, the bike won’t go.

That’s why we still struggle to answer the timeless, nagging questions…

What counts as progress?

Am I being responsible?

Am I doing this the right way?

How will I know when I have enough?

What does financial independence feel like?

We can answer these questions when we continually revisit where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re trying to go.

We need the right hub, so the spokes can be spokes.