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High achievers need to set financial and lifestyle goals for themselves or risk getting dizzy grabbing at brass ringsgetting disoriente. The best way to orient: Find out what other people in your cohort are doing.

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Keep it TogetherNewly comfortable professionals struggle to calibrate day-to-day spending and take a binge and splurge approach.

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