Life Planning may refer to or encompass financial planning, career planning, family planning (for instance, formulating a reproductive life plan), planning how to live with a disability (for instance using Person Centred Planning).

Life planning is a special discipline in the financial planning industry. Financial planners have come to realize that money touches all areas of a person's life. Often, closely-held dreams and emotions crop up during the financial planning process. As a result, training organizations that aim to help financial planners deal with a potentially volatile and/or tender landscape have emerged.