It’s not because your employer underpaid you.
But because inflation was already eating 6% of it before you even opened your banking app.
Nobody told you that saving money in a regular savings account is technically losing money. Your bank pays you 0.5%. Inflation runs at 4 to 6. You do the math.
Nobody told you the financial advice your parents gave you was built for their economy. Stable job, save 20%, retire at 65. That formula assumed pensions still existed and housing was still affordable.
Nobody told you that the safest-feeling financial decision in your 20s, doing nothing, is actually the riskiest one. Every year you wait to invest is a year of compounding you never get back.
And nobody told you that financial literacy isn’t about being good with money. It’s about knowing which rules were written for you and which ones were written to keep you manageable.
The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed.
The question is whether it’s designed for you.
Lou Besonia
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22/04/2026
31 years old.
No health issues. No warning signs. No time to prepare.
Just gone.
We always think it’s the sick ones who go first.
The ones we worry about.
The ones already in and out of hospitals.
But sometimes it’s the ones who look the healthiest.
The ones with plans. The ones who were supposed to be somewhere next week.
She was a mother. Someone’s whole world.
And that world shifted in one afternoon, without warning, without a goodbye, without anything in place.
I’m not writing this to scare you.
I’m writing this because I used to think preparation was for old people. For the sick. For the ones who “needed it.”
I was wrong and learned it the hard way.
The people who leave the biggest gaps are the ones nobody expected to leave so soon.
If you have someone depending on you right now, this is your sign.
Not tomorrow. Not when things settle. Not when you feel more ready.
Now.
20/04/2026
One pattern shows up more than any other.
The parent who has not had a check-up in years.
The one who brushes it off, says they are fine, finds a reason to postpone. Every time.
People assume it is denial. Or stubbornness.
It is neither.
It is math.
They already know what a hospital visit leads to.
One symptom becomes one referral. One referral becomes three tests. Three tests become a bill that wipes out what they saved quietly in their entire life.
A CT scan alone can run up to P15,000.
An MRI up to P25,000.
A PET-CT scan for cancer staging: P43,000 to P105,000.
And that is before a single treatment begins.
For a family earning P20,000 a month, one round of diagnostics can take 16% to 79% of their entire income.
Not for surgery. Not for medication. Just for finding out the real heath status.
So they decide not to find out.
They carry the worry alone.
They protect everyone from the cost by pretending there is nothing to check.
And the people who love them have no idea until it is too late to do anything cheaply.
This is the conversation I have with clients regularly. Not about death.
But the quiet decision a parent makes when they decide their health is not worth the disruption.
There is a way to change that math before it becomes urgent.
If you want to talk about how to make sure your family never has to face that trade-off, send me a message
16/04/2026
Most people review their salary every year.
Nobody reviews their protection.
So the raise comes in, the lifestyle adjusts, the responsibilities grow.
But the insurance plan sits there, quietly outdated, still sized for the person you used to be.
If your income has changed in the last two years and your coverage hasn’t, this is worth five minutes of your time.
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