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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

Housing Aside from educational debt, housing is commonly the largest expense we will make in our lives. Passive lifestyle creep is rarely the result of one single purchase (aside from maybe a new home or car) but the slow accumulation of many and many serial purchases that often transition from rare events to habitual expenses.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? Diversification works to smooth out risk events in a portfolio so that the gains in some investments help to combat the losses from others. We simply cannot. Do not worry.

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