I attended a conference last week and two of the keynote speakers stood out from the others:

1. A Canadian astronaut
2. A former Whitehouse Chief Information Officer

Although each had very different experience and delivery style, their messages were based on common ground:

1. Set goals and develop a plan to get achieve them
2. Run the ‘worst case’ scenarios in order to learn how to better manage adverse events by improving your processes and systems, mitigating the risk of an event occurring and/or to setting up contingency plans
3. Team work and understanding others’ perspectives

I think this is great advice for life in general and financial management!