Jackson Bogan


Retirement Planning for Any Stage of Your Life

Are you a millennial, Gen Xer or Baby Boomer?  Depending on which group you fall into will determine just what you should be doing at your stage of life in order to retire comfortably in roughly 40, 25 or 5 years. Creating a Viable Retirement Plan at Any Age For anyone putting together a financial […]

Jenny Hall — A True Asset to Her Clients

Getting to Know Us The Mitchell Agency Team is made up of a group of professionals that know their industry and clients well.  They are knowledgeable, dedicated and always work with the client’s best interest in mind.  They are also fun loving, have some interesting hobbies, and give back to our community in many different […]

Money Traps That Can Be Very Costly

According to Dave Ramsey, a well-known speaker on financial topics, “Managing money is 80% behavior and 20% head knowledge.  It’s what you do, not what you know.”    Here are a few money traps that with a little knowledge you can avoid some very costly mistakes.  By doing so you’ll be in a stronger financial […]

Halloween Fire Safety Tips

  Children (and many adults) look forward to Halloween when they get dressed up in scary costumes, go trick-or-treating, and attend parties. These Halloween activities include decorations of glowing jack-o-lanterns; paper ghosts and goblins; and dried cornstalks and hay bales adorning our front porches. These fun activities and decorations also can present potential fire risks […]

How to Avoid Compiling Huge Student Debt

The Class of 2016 just graduated with an average student loan debt of $37, 172, up six percent from last year. This means that for the next 10 years these individuals will be paying over $400 a month to repay their loans. Student debt impacts new graduates in a number of ways. It often means […]

Get the Most Out of Your Next Vacation

How often do we hear from someone who has just returned from a vacation the lament that “they need a vacation from their vacation.”  This typically implies that the stress-free, carefree vacation they were hoping for did not happen. Why Vacations are Important Enjoying your time away from work and your normal routine is important […]

The Importance of Having Outside Interests

Your life is made up of many vital areas including your health, family, financial, intellectual, social, work, spiritual, recreation, personal growth, romance and more. But where do we tend to spend the most time?  For most of us it is at our jobs.  Jobs that, again for many of us, tend to define who we […]

Just Do It !!!! Stop Procrastinating

It’s a common slogan, “Just Do It”.  Nike has made a lot of money promoting this mantra.  So why is it that we so often delay, avoid and procrastinate on tasks that can impact our success, our happiness, and how other’s think of us? Here are the Top Ten Things People Procrastinate Over as compiled […]

Achieving Happiness in Life

  We all realize that being happy 100% of the time is not realistic. Life has its moments that bring sadness and sorrow into our lives.   But being happy most of the time is something we all strive to achieve. And while not being able to control every circumstance we encounter can lead to some […]

Our New Year’s Resolution for 2017

Each New Year has many of us setting goals that will improve our lives, our personal relationships, and perhaps even impact the world we live in. In our line of work we are exposed to some of the highest highs and lowest lows in an individual’s life.  From these experiences we recognize how important it […]