It is a process of managing financial resources accompanied with strategies for ACCUMULATING, PROTECTING, ALLOCATING, and DISTRIBUTING in accordance with your financial goals. This is a series of interrelated steps with the express purpose of achieving certain financial goal.
Part of the interrelated steps of Financial Planning is the identifying of our Financial Blueprint. This is where we identify our monthly Income, Expenses, and Savings. Including the number of years we are working.
And if you're not familiar with the 50/30/20 Budgeting Rule, this is the discipline we should keep to ourselves when spending and saving. This is inline with identifying our long term goals like: Emergency Fund, Retirement Fund, Life Insurance Coverage, and Health Insurance.