Another colleague, Rick Kahler, author and co-author of several books including one of my all-time personal finance favorites, The Financial Wisdom of EbenezerScrooge, insists every financial advisor needs his or her own financial advisor.
This is why the accidental genius of Charles Dickens is to have made, of EbenezerScrooge, the only character in the story who has any personality to him and the one whose stoic attempt at a futile resistance is invoked under the breath more than most people care to admit.