ALR
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ALR
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Dad of 2 perfect daughters! Golf ⛳️ IUBB 🏀
Katılım Eylül 2015
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My 71-year-old client sees his daughter maybe 6 times a year.
They live 50 minutes apart.
Not estranged. Not fighting.
Just... busy.
Holidays. Birthdays. The occasional Sunday dinner.
"We text every day," he told me. "We're really close."
I did the math in front of him.
He's 71. Statistically, he has maybe 12-15 years left.
Six visits a year.
That's 72-90 more times he'll see her in person.
He stared at the number.
"90 more times with my daughter?"
He went quiet for a minute.
"That's it? That's all that's left?"
Tim Urban from Wait But Why calculated something that stopped me cold:
By the time you leave home at 18, you've already spent 93% of your in-person time with your parents.
The remaining 7% gets spread thinly—just a few days per year—across the next several decades of their lives.
You think you have forever.
The math says different.
He called her that night.
Now she comes for coffee every Sunday.
"I've seen her 11 times in the last 3 months," he told me.
"More than all of last year."
He didn't need a financial plan.
He needed to see the number.
Sometimes the most important math has nothing to do with money.
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