1,000 Piece Puzzle

You know, oftentimes when you’re out and about in public or maybe at a social gathering or event, somebody will come across and ask you, you know what do you do for a living? What keeps you busy, right? And everybody has their own way they’re going to answer that question. They’re an Architect. They’re a Builder. Whatever that may be. Well over the years when folks have ask me that, you know I’m proud to say, I work at Centennial Wealth Advisory. I’m one of the senior partners here. And I’m a Financial Advisor to help people plan to retire. And kind of go on and on about that. And I really enjoy what I do. I’m passionate about it. But after awhile too, you know I realize that there’s more to it than that. And most people when they’re asking that question, I believe are generally interested. But after awhile, you can only speak so long and their eyes are going to glaze over, right? So you know I started thinking about, you know what exactly do we do here? What is this like? And so I think over the years and as I’ve been working with my kids and building puzzles and all this sort of stuff, you know I started to think. You know a lot of what we do is like putting together a 1000 piece puzzle, but not having the picture on the box to do it. You know think of retirement planning. You know every individual out there and you sitting there watching us, I’m sure you have these retirement dreams and aspirations that you want to do or create during your retirement of this vivid picture of what that looks like. But how is that all going to come into play? How are these things going to do? So us at Centennial Wealth Advisory, our job is to help you put together that puzzle. But we always don’t have that map to do that, right? That picture of what this puzzle is going to look like. We don’t know. We don’t know how long you’re going to live. We don’t know some of these variables that are going to be out there. So we start picking up these pieces and putting them together. You know what are these pieces? Think of these pieces about the different plans that you should have in retirement planning. An income plan, an investment plan, tax plan, estate, health care, long-term care, you know, legacy. Some of those are the core ones that you hear us talk about a lot. But what about some of these other pieces out there that you know, think of those ones I just said. Maybe that’s that border, right, that we’re building that puzzle. But what about some of these smaller puzzles? You know when you’re building those puzzles and maybe it’s not clear where that piece is going to go. You know what about paying off debt? What about helping children or grandchildren? A second home? Buying a new care? Major home improvements? You know health? Surviving spouse? Some of these things that maybe aren’t at the forefront of your mind, but they’re going to come along. Remember as we always talk about, retirement could be 20, 30, 40 years of your life. These different pieces of this puzzle all need to have their home and their specific place for that. So what do we do? We help you put together that 1000 piece retirement puzzle that you’ve been dreaming about and you can see. Now it’s our job to come along side you and help you place all those pieces of your puzzle so you can live and plan to retire well.