The Balance Between Living For Today and Planning For Tomorrow

Richard C. Salmen
5 min readDec 12, 2020
Photo by Brendan Church on Unsplash

One of the financial challenges most individuals and families have to deal with is finding the balance between living for today and planning for tomorrow. If you put everything away toward the future while living on beans and rice today and then end up dying young you will have forgone quality of life in your quest for security. But, if you spend everything you make today plus 10%…

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Richard C. Salmen

President, Family Investment Center, Inc., Lenexa, KS. Fee-Only Financial Planner. Servant Leader.