We thought this blog post was so important, we decided to share it again! Avoiding these financial missteps may help improve your future personal finances. It's never too late to better your future financial wellness.

Data breaches, once a fairly rare occurrence, have become more frequent as hackers become more skilled in their ability to extract personal data from popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Retirement can sneak up on you.

Your financial future is up to you and no one else.

What will be your future? You know that a solid retirement strategy takes your time horizon, an often unpredictable factor, into consideration. Your thinking must include an awareness of how long you must save for and what sort of expenditures may be ahead.

High Expectations

Over five years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In a heartbeat, my focus changed for me. First of all, I became really panicked. Was I going to die? What treatments was I going to need? How much time off work would I have to take? Oh my God. If I can't work how can I pay the bills?

Oh wait. I have critical illness coverage. I think I'll be ok. 

Sometimes simple is best. Many of us tend to complicate our financial situation; overthinking our options while ignoring the basics.

But like anything else, the simplest rules are often the most important ones; and the ones most likely to be ignored. How many of these rules do you follow?

In addition to your performance reporting and billing, this month you will find a few BEST FINANCIAL PLANNING PRACTICES and an ECONOMIC COMMENTARY.