{"id":797,"date":"2013-11-04T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2018-08-13T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:16:03","slug":"2-things-you-must-know-before-making-a-major-spending-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/2-things-you-must-know-before-making-a-major-spending-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Things You Must Know Before Making a Major Spending Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 24.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333; background: white;\">This article,\u00a0written by Keith Whelan, was recently posted on Wise Bread\u2019s personal\u00a0finance site.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most would agree that successfully managing your finances is near\u00a0the top of the list of important things to do in life. \u00a0In fact, for most Americans only two other things, family and health, are more important.\u00a0 \u00a0But how do you define success?<\/p>\n<p>Without a clear and measurable definition of financial success, like Alice in Wonderland you risk falling through the looking glass and losing your way.\u00a0 Or as George Harrison paraphrased the book\u2019s author: \u201dIf you don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going, any road will take you there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, what should your financial goal be?\u00a0 And what\u2019s the best road to get you there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisebread.com\/2-things-you-must-know-before-making-a-major-spending-decision\">http:\/\/www.wisebread.com\/2-things-you-must-know-before-making-a-major-spending-decision<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This article,\u00a0written by Keith Whelan, was recently posted on Wise Bread\u2019s personal\u00a0finance site. Most would agree that successfully managing your finances is near\u00a0the top of the list of important things to do in life. \u00a0In fact, for most Americans only two other things, family and health, are more important.\u00a0 \u00a0But how do you define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,10,9,17,3,13,8,7,1,46,21],"tags":[24,25,93,126,125,48],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciation-2","category-assets","category-cash-flow","category-financial-independence","category-financial-planning","category-investments","category-net-worth","category-retirement","category-uncategorized","category-wealth","category-wealth-accumulation","tag-cash-flow-2","tag-financial-independence-2","tag-investment","tag-money-management","tag-personal-finance","tag-wealth-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashflownavigator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}