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Evan T. Beach, CFP®, AWMA®

I'm a Financial Planner: These Three Things Are Missing From Almost Every Financial 'Plan' I See

Three wooden spheres on the corners of separate cards in different colors.

My best workout weeks are the ones when I write in my calendar what I'm going to do that morning. Monday is a 3-mile run. Tuesday is plyometrics. The point is that there is a plan, and if I write it down, I almost always follow it.

The great irony of financial "plans" is that they are the only plan I have come across that isn't actually a plan. In fact, a plan tells you, "Do this, then do that."

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