How Wealth Health Got Its Name

I’ve been paid for personal financial advice since 2002 so you could say that I’ve been at it for awhile – more than a dozen years. In all that time, I’ve been consistently struck by the similarities between good financial planning and the better parts of working with a good doctor.

Healthcare Goal

Once you find and work with a good medical professional …

You feel better.
You’re empowered to make better daily decisions.
Better daily decisions lead to better health which makes you feel even better, leads to greater confidence and eventually results in even better daily decisions in a positive reinforcement loop.

Wealth Health Goal

What can happen after working with me on your personal finance issues?

You will feel better.
You’ll be empowered to make better daily decisions.
Better daily decisions will lead to better Wealth Health and a better Quality of Life which will make you feel even better, lead to greater confidence and eventually result in even better daily decisions with your money (in a positive reinforcement loop).

Why Wealth Health

This is why I originally coined the phrase “Wealth Health” back in 2008 and have used it regularly (many times a day) since then. “Wealth Health” and physical “Wellness” are almost exactly the same in terms of both process and results.

You feel better in the end. They’re both about daily decisions. They each build on positive feedback loops and the best practitioners come at their work passionately from a place of service and doing what’s best for you in the long run.

They do also have what I call “experience delivery” and marketing message issues where people who need help don’t get it because they think the cost in terms of money, time and/or effort won’t be worth the end result (a topic for a later post).