Resources By Garth Hassel

Your Relationships with People (Averting a Repeat Situation)

Break the cycle of over giving and reclaim your power. Discover how setting boundaries and prioritizing self-care can lead to healthier, more fulfilling relationships. ...more

Your Relationships with People (Averting a Repeat Situation)

October 01, 2024•3 min read

Your Relationships with People (Shifting Roles, Cascading Health)

Balancing caregiving and personal well-being can be overwhelming for women. Shifting roles often lead to emotional and physical burnout, leaving relationships and health at risk. But self-care isn't s... ...more

Your Relationships with People (Shifting Roles, Cascading Health)

September 23, 2024•3 min read

Your Relationships with People (A Caregiver’s Toll)

Caregiving is an incredible act of love, but it can also strain your relationships and lead to emotional burnout. Discover how to navigate this delicate balance and maintain meaningful connections wit... ...more

Your Relationships with People (A Caregiver’s Toll)

September 16, 2024•5 min read

Supporting Mothers of Children with Special Needs

Mothers caring for children with special needs show extraordinary strength, love, and resilience every day. Your support can make all the difference! From offering a listening ear to providing practic... ...more

Supporting Mothers of Children with Special Needs

September 10, 2024•3 min read

The Heart Of Caregiving: Women's Role In Providing Love And Comfort To Their Elders

Discover the profound role women play as caregivers to aging parents or in-laws, providing love, comfort, and dignity. This article sheds light on their strength and selflessness and offers practical ... ...more

The Heart Of Caregiving: Women's Role In Providing Love And Comfort To Their Elders

September 05, 2024•2 min read

Strength and Resilience: Women Supporting Special Needs

Mothers of children with special needs are true warriors, navigating a complex world of caregiving, advocacy, and unconditional love. They juggle medical appointments, therapies, and endless responsib... ...more

Strength and Resilience: Women Supporting Special Needs

August 31, 2024•2 min read

The Hidden Heroes: Women In Family Caregiving (and How to Help Them)

The Hidden Heroes: Women In Family Caregiving" highlights the resilience, selflessness, and challenges faced by women who care for aging loved ones. These unsung heroes manage households, careers, and... ...more

The Hidden Heroes: Women In Family Caregiving (and How to Help Them)

August 24, 2024•2 min read

HOMESCHOOLING: Haven or Havoc?

Your child's school years are precious and fleeting.

Now could be your best time to step up where your school is letting your child down. Let this series of myth-busting short chapters encourage you.

2 Major Mistakes

Which one will you make?

Which of these 2 retirement mistakes are you making right now? It's impossible to entirely avoid both mistakes.

You won't know for sure which mistake will work out better for you until it's too late.

How to choose?

Finding the Will

(Part 1)

Part 1: Have the will to arrange for a smooth transition when you’re no longer around to answer questions

Have the will to arrange for a smooth transition when you’re no longer around to answer questions (Part 1)

Ensuring your children or other Loved Ones can readily access your important papers when you die entails a sound process versus one or two conversations. You must overcome aversion to the subject of death, procrastination of anything that is long-term, and the tendency to assume things will be fine. Family dynamics can be sweet, spicy, or dicey.

Finding the Will

(Part 2)

Part 2: Getting Organized

While the internet permits convenient access to accounts, policies, and stored documents, it presents a plethora of password management problems. which too many people avoid by succumbing to password laziness, such as:

re-using passwords for multiple logins, or

use simple, easy to remember passwords, or

writing them on sticky notes placed on their monitor or under their keyboard, or

keeping them in a spreadsheet on their computer, or

letting their browser remember passwords for them

Embrace Your Clarence

Is Clarence your future?

Golden insight from a golden retriever.

Post-Pandemic W.E.L.L.ness

Working, Earning, Learning, and Launching to Thrive

Where life drastically changed forever two years ago, everyone adjusted to the best of their abilities.

Here are a few of the key adjustments--"pandemic pivots"--that sustained some and prospered others.

Prenuptial Adulting

Equip Them for Happily Ever After

“Mom, Dad, we’re getting married!"

“Wonderful, congratulations! Here’s what you both need to do first.”

Equipping newlyweds with essentials of responsibility leaves plenty of life yet to be discovered on their own. Adults understand that love isn’t oogly feelings; it’s a hard choice. It’s putting your commitments and your money where your mouth is.

Many of the following steps also apply to one’s turning 18 years old. Becoming engaged adds urgency and a deadline.

Rethinking Competing Funds for College and Retirement

We live in a time of skyrocketing inflation topping decades of unbridled higher education costs.

Is the tension between funding your retirement and funding (at least partially) your children’s college education keeping you up at night?

You’re not alone.

Married? Is Your Endgame 100% or Just 50%?

Are you single? That other 50% could be whoever is most important to you.

Multiple unforgiving players factor into your retirement and estate plans (collectively your “endgame”). Household names include the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Key decisions with these players are nearly impossible to reverse. Plus, if you qualify for a pension, how you activate it is another irreversible decision.

Are you more of a planner than your spouse? It’s all too common for one spouse to blindly trust the planning spouse. Countless endgame “plans” were created by 50% of a couple: