Maximizing Your Financial Potential, with Scott McCright

Most people never maximize their full financial potential. That means they don’t accumulate the assets they could, and what they do save and invest isn’t protected and gets eroded too quickly. Then they take distributions in a way that shrinks their income, and they’re always trying to outrun the fear of running out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2qIGF_hwn4 Sound too close for comfort? This doesn’t have to be you.  We’re talking with another of our stellar advisors on The Money Advantage team, Scott McCright. You’ll hear the tenured experience he’s gained in over 27 years of working with clients, and his approach as an educator, strategist, and engineer. So, if one of your goals for the NEW YEAR is a fresh start financially, where you take ownership and lock in a plan you’re CONFIDENT will maximize your potential and do the most with your money… tune in below! Table of contentsIntroducing Scott McCrightDefining Financial FreedomStrategizing for Full Financial PotentialMindset MattersOpportunity CostReach Your Financial Potential with Privatized BankingBook A Strategy Call As we usher in this New Year, it’s time to think about your finances with fresh eyes. We recommend starting by zooming out: by looking at the big picture of your finances, you can maximize your lifestyle with efficiency. That means maximizing your income, your protection, your assets, and ultimately, realizing your full financial potential. To do that, you have to know how the pieces fit together.  Today, we’re sharing with you a way to think differently.  Introducing Scott McCright Scott is a member of the team here at The Money Advantage and offers a really valuable perspective to our clients. What we’ve seen time and time again is that he treats everyone as he would treat his friends. And that is so crucial to our mission here at The Money Advantage and treating finance like a team sport. After spending time in the Navy, Scott transitioned into the financial services world in 1993. He started first in insurance, and then moved to securities, when he had a realization. He was seeing time and time again that everyone was told to do exactly the same things. The advice wasn’t tailored for the individuals, and no one was really hitting it out of the park either. How could everyone expect to have different results when they were making the same mistakes? So he joined hands with other professionals, to see if there was a better way to help people.  [7:25] “I’m a big believer in, ‘There’s not one specific product that’s going to get you where you want to go.’ It’s more in the how and the why you do things than it is the where.” Defining Financial Freedom The financial landscape has gone through many changes over the last few decades, though people can more or less agree on one thing: they are looking for financial freedom. We think one of the best places to start, as highlighted by Scott’s quote above, is figuring out your “how” and “why.”  Get clear on what you want. What does financial freedom look like to you? What will you be able to do once you reach financial freedom, that you cannot do now? There are a few things that happen here when you get really clear on your vision. The first is, you can create a plan, or a strategy. If you’re working with a team of advisors, bringing your ideas to the table can be a great asset to the process. The next thing that happens is, you create a sort of discipline, because you’ve pinpointed the future that you want for yourself. You’re motivated, rather than defeated by what you don’t have.  This combination pulls you out of the narrow view and allows you to think about your big picture finances. It’s easier to create long-term strategies to reach your full financial potential when you’re working toward specific dreams. This is the time to make sure that all the pieces and parts of your financial life are going to work together to get you there.