Five numbers that you should know about's amazing how many folks don't have a

solid bead on the important parts of their financial life that they should

know and even worse I think there's some common misnomers around some of these

numbers that we're going to share today so we want to make you aware of five

numbers that are not difficult to discern but if you are equipped with these

numbers they can have a huge impact on your

financial life.

Well I want you to take an active role in your personal finance.

I feel like way too many people just let life happen to them and if you're not measuring if you're not planning are you really

doing anything other than dreaming and that's the part we want to kind of focus on

so we're going to help you cozy up to these important numbers so Brian let's jump into the first one.

Number one and this is a huge one this is one that gets us so excited

your savings rate and we say your savings rate what we're talking about is the percentage of your

pre-tax or your gross income that you are saving and investing for the future

this is a huge one. Well we get in trouble because people, when we say savings rate, and I, and sometimes interchangeably, I'm talking about savings, but sometimes I'm talking about investments.

So I love that we actually get to clarify this so we actually broke it into two columns.

Savings rate can continue can include a lot of different buckets.

It can be your emergency funds.

It can be any type of if you're saving for a future car,

home, or vacation funds, it can be 529s, and of course it can be your

investments and retirement funds, but that is different when we talk about that aspirational saving

and investing 25% goal. Yeah, we're talking about 25%, we're talking about money that is being

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