Once a year, ask yourself five things. Not as a chore. Not out of anxiety. But as an act of intention — a quiet, honest inventory of whether your financial life still matches the life you're actually living. Spring has always been the season for this. Cultures around the world have marked the turn toward light with rituals of clearing and renewal. The Persians swept their homes before Nowruz. The Japanese practiced oosoji  — great cleaning — to make space, both physical and s