Next week is National Financial Planning week. Celebrate your financial strength.
20 Ways to Celebrate Financial Planning Week
1. Balance your checkbook
2. Write down your financial goals and revisit them periodically
3. Establish an emergency fund
4. Start a savings account for a child, vacation or a gift for yourself
5. Get your estate in order: Create or revise your will and other estate-planning documents
6. Call your financial planner and share your appreciation for their service
7. Pay off a credit card
8. Get a head start on college — investigate college planning options
9. Help teach your children how to save and spend wisely
10. Evaluate your employee benefits and begin planning for open enrollment
11. Develop your holiday spending budget
12. Plan for year-end tax strategies
13. Purchase a session with a financial planner for a relative, friend or colleague
14. Give a relative, friend or colleague a subscription to a personal finance magazine
15. Invite a financial planner to speak at your workplace
16. Review your insurance coverage
17. Make a monetary contribution to your favorite charity
18. Start using personal finance software to help you better understand your money
19. Look up three financial terms that have baffled you and resolve to understand them
20. Talk to a relative about their plans for long-term care
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