Feng Shui Your Financial House — Day 27

Mariko O. Gordon, CFA
6 min readDec 27, 2023

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟕’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲?

What do you believe? Is your money managed in alignment with those beliefs? Is it invested to support what you wish to sow into the world?

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨.

Since how you steward your wealth mirrors your relationship with yourself, harmonize them. You’ll feel grounded and make better money decisions without cognitive dissonance.

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬?

If the answer is yes, roll up your sleeves and keep reading.

First, decide what matters to you and how much effort you will make. Virtue signaling is easy, but living your ethics requires self-awareness and commitment.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭, “𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬” 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥.

For one, our moral compasses are not identical. Each one of us holds a unique cocktail of values.

For another, the world is enormously complex, and our foundational economic and financial systems were…

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Mariko O. Gordon, CFA

Built $2.5B money mgmt biz from scratch. Coaching badass women to build & love their businesses, manage their finances, and make sure the thrill is never gone.