Love this - especially your identity portfolio and mention of the fluidity of distribution in different life stages. Thinking back at my 9am - 9pm days in advertising, where all my friends were work mates (wonderful but oh so risky), I shudder. Curious about your thoughts on Future Rick's 145% capacity - the way I interpret is that an aligned diversification allows you to go further ...
This piece really resonated with me, I have had multiple times that my career change or ambition change has called my understanding of my identity into question
Hey Rick, love the investment portfolio analogy, and the ability to reallocate/rebalance "funds" invested in each bucket. When I had a full time job I didn't even have time to think in such ways, work felt like 90% of the portfolio, everything else was split amongst the remaining 10% and relegated to the weekends. Not a great way to live, but is sadly the default for so many.
The themes and many details of this series closely describes my trajectory. We've lived parallel experiences.
The asset allocation is a wonderful analogy. It's not passive, and need not be permanent if one's situation changes.
Thanks for your feedback and support Jason. I'm glad it resonated with your own experiences.
the analogy between asset allocation and identities was money (no pun intended 😂)
great exercise worth doing
Love this - especially your identity portfolio and mention of the fluidity of distribution in different life stages. Thinking back at my 9am - 9pm days in advertising, where all my friends were work mates (wonderful but oh so risky), I shudder. Curious about your thoughts on Future Rick's 145% capacity - the way I interpret is that an aligned diversification allows you to go further ...
I think you're reading the 30% under Family as 80%. In your defense, the font is not helping.
But... your comment made me realize my numbers added up to 95%. Ugh!
I was playing with them at the end and never added them up. Got it fixed.
So thank you for helping me notice that error.
I'm afraid it wasn't the eyes but my deteriorating abilities in the field of arithmetic 🙈
This piece really resonated with me, I have had multiple times that my career change or ambition change has called my understanding of my identity into question
Those times of change can definitely make you question the identity you used to hold so dear.
Thanks, as always for the feedback, Jack!
Hey Rick, love the investment portfolio analogy, and the ability to reallocate/rebalance "funds" invested in each bucket. When I had a full time job I didn't even have time to think in such ways, work felt like 90% of the portfolio, everything else was split amongst the remaining 10% and relegated to the weekends. Not a great way to live, but is sadly the default for so many.
And that identity is so reinforced by others, that it makes it hard to see the risks at play.
Thanks for sharing your personal perspective.