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Are you picking the wrong money goals?

February 19, 2019 By Liz Weston

Setting smart, achievable goals is important if you want to take charge of your financial life. But many of us are surprisingly bad at choosing the goals that actually matter most to us.

Investment research firm Morningstar had 318 people write down their top three financial priorities, then showed them a master list of goals prepared by the researchers. Three out of four investors changed at least one goal after seeing the master list, and one out of four switched their top priority.

In my latest for the Associated Press, how to choose the financial goals that matter the most.

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