Most people's financial lives are spread across a patchwork of accounts, loans, insurance policies, and retirement funds — some forgotten, some incomplete, some never quite dealt with. Getting your financial house in order means bringing all of it together in one place so you can finally see the whole picture. Tim walks through the process he uses at the start of every financial planning engagement: gathering all of your important financial information, reviewing it to make sure the details are accurate and complete, and then evaluating how the pieces fit together using a series of financial scores that show where things stand right now. Because before you start making plans for the future, you need a clear, honest baseline for where you are today.

One Key Takeaway: You can't make a plan for where you're going if you don't know where you are right now.

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