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Manage Your Complicated Cash Flow: Fund the Fun Stuff While Still Knowing You’re Safe.
By Meg Bartelt, CFP®, MSFP, RICP®, Flow Financial Planning
Ahhhh, remember when your parents received a steady salary and paid, like, four bills a month? Times were simple. Times were good.
Your finances—on both the Income side and the Expenses side—are way more complicated. And that, my dear, is why managing your cash flow is so maddeningly difficult to do well.
But there is a way to set up your cash flow so that it’s logical, repeatable, and largely automated.
Why Is It So Hard to Manage Cash Flow?
If you had just a salary, and it came twice a month, and all your bills came once a month, you might not need help managing your cash flow. But instead of that setup, you have income that comes on several different schedules:
What to do if you make 200k a year and have 400k in debt?
by Andre Small, CFP®, MBA, A Small Investment, LLC
What to do if you make $200K a year and have $400K in debt or more! And actually the strategies and information I share in this insight can apply to many situations where someone’s income is less than half of their debts.
Earning $200,000 a year sounds like you should feel financially free. But $400,000 in debt can feel like a heavy anchor.
You’re not alone. Many high earners find themselves overwhelmed by debt they thought they could easily manage. The good news?
You can fix it. You just need a clear, focused plan, and the commitment to stick with the plan.
Let’s discuss how you can take control of your finances starting today.
“Where Did All My Money Go?” — Surrounding Financial Goals with Simple Systems That Actually Work
by Zack Gutches, CFP®, CPA, True Riches Financial Planning
The Problem
If you are earning over $250,000 per year (a great living!), you may have expected money to be a lot easier than it's unfolding to be. Not perfect or entirely stress-free, but definitely easier.
And yet, if you're completely honest, you often think things like:
- “We make too much to feel this much weight.”
- “How do we make this much and not feel like we have more to show for it?”
- “I want to get more organized and create a Plan, but life feels at capacity already.”
- If that’s you, the issue usually isn’t that you’re “bad with money”.
It’s that you have good intentions—but no simple, effective systems surrounding those intentions. And good intentions without systems are just aspirations.
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