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" A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation. "
Financial
Advice
You
" A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future. "
Today
Choices
Road
" As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all. "
New
You
Risk
" As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time. "
Simple
Time
Wife
" Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar. "
Best
Value
Time
" Flowers make me irrationally happy. "
Flowers
Happy
Make
" For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. "
Graduation
Life
Long
" I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account. "
First
Pay
People
" I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me. "
Mind
Think
Desk
" If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support. "
Support
Together
Gym
" I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money. "
Money
Myself
Own
" I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it. "
Time
Up
More
" It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age. "
Start
Value
Early
" It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes. "
Changes
Business
Strategy
" Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those less fortunate. Ask your kids to search for items, toys, or clothes that they no longer use and contribute those items a collection box. "
Family
Clothes
Charity
" Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses. "
Difference
Your
Expenses
" Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget. "
Budget
Your
Sticking
" My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity. "
Day
Think
Myself
" Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list. "
Opportunity
Financial
Time
" The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save. "
Future
You
Start
" We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt. "
Life
Freedom
Face
" What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through? "
Creating
Possible
Budget
" When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat. "
Try
Clothes
School
" When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible. "
Work
You
Possible
" Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens. "
Finance
School
Red
" Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it. "
Correct
Right
Credit
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