What Would You Give For Another Day?

Late last night my brother sent me a very thoughtful text about my dad. If you don’t know my story I had a very good relationship with my dad and loved to spend any extra time with him that I could.

In July 2016 my dad had a blood clot that ended his life on earth very abruptly. It was a shock and devastating event for my mom, their six children and their spouses and grandchildren he left behind.

To hear more about this story there is a video on my website that you can take a look at…

https://www.stevenrlarsen.com/

(Here is a picture of my dad with two of my sons and their cousins about a month before he passed away)

The text from my brother made me think, “what would I give to spend one more day with my dad?”

Would I give up all of my assets, investments etc. that I have spent years growing?

For those of you who have lost loved ones that you are close to, you would join me in answering that question with a resounding…YES!

Think of what you could say, do and the things you could learn. How amazing that experience would be.

With all of those experiences and knowledge if you did want to make all the money back I’m sure you could do it very quickly.

Here’s my point, nobody gets out of this place alive, and you don’t take any money with you. You aren’t buried with gold bars, dollar bills or crypto cold-wallets.

It’s the things you do and experience on this earth that really matters.

I think the Wall St. rhetoric and its advisors are missing the mark. They all seem to say the same thing.

When the market goes down they just say sit and wait for the market to come back or assets are on sale let’s buy some more.

I have yet to hear an advisor say, “I’m so sorry we lost $100k in your 401k, and that you can’t take that once in a lifetime trip with all of your grandkids to Hawaii/Europe/etc.”

Because when you lose money in the market you are losing time and none of us know when our number is going to be called.

Each day is a gift.

Remember — It’s Your Time…

Steve