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.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.

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.