As financial educators, we hear this every week, sometimes on a daily or even hourly basis, depending on what is going on with the market and the economy. Our callers and workshop participants reach a point of total surrender, where they want us to make a decision for them. Don’t educate me, they are saying. Don’t teach me how to avoid problems like this in the future or how to make decisions on my own. I have a life to run, a job to perform, children to care for. I don’t have time to make my own financial decisions on top of everything else. You’re the expert. Make this easy, make this painless. Make the decision for me!
This week’s column isn’t about a single person or workshop; it’s about something that virtually all of us face at some point in our lives–the desire to surrender a decision to an expert when we are completely overwhelmed and out of our league, when we lack the tools and knowledge to comfortably make a decision on our own.
Read the full article at Forbes.com
