A lot of people treat financial planning like an annual chore — review it once a year, make a small adjustment, then set it aside and forget about it until the same time next year. That approach worked better in a slower-moving economy. It's a genuinely risky habit in one that's shifting as fast as this one.

Inflation doesn't pause between your annual reviews. Debt dynamics don't wait politely for your next scheduled check-in. Treating financial awareness as a once-a-year event is like checking for oncoming traffic once and then walking across the street with your eyes closed for the rest of the year, assuming nothing's changed since that one glance.

Gregory Mannarino's whole approach treats this as ongoing, active attention — not obsessive daily anxiety, but a genuine habit of staying aware of what's actually happening to money, currency, and debt, the same way you'd stay aware of traffic while actually crossing a street, not just at the one moment you decided to look.

Don't get run over by treating this like a once-a-year task. The economy doesn't operate on your annual review schedule, and neither does what it's doing to your money in the meantime.