Know yourself....Friday thought for the day.

Know yourself. The financial planning field has largely embraced helping people identify their life goals and mapping out a path to achieving those goals. It makes sense. Money can be the means to an end or a way to keep score. But it makes a lousy proxy for measuring what you get out of living your life.

What do you want to accomplish while on this earth? What do you need to get it done? Revise, re-evaluate and resubmit as necessary, but don't let the pursuit of wealth be the goal. Instead, let it be a catalyst to achieving your goals.