Three Ways to Cut Financial Stress

Are your finances keeping you up at night? Here are a few tips and tricks to break free and relax.

1. Ease off the budgeting

The Logic: Money (or its lack) is the nation’s most common source of stress, reports the American Psychological Association. Making a detailed budget — a widely advised fix — only makes things worse, says Cleveland financial planner Kenneth Robinson, based on a decade of work with clients; the problem is that people hate to think about where they’ll need to cut back.