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Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Those who just go along, hoping for the best, are usually the ones who struggle financially or get themselves into too much debt. Setting financial goals is an important part of planning to achieve financial security and have enough money in your retirement years to live the way you want. Would you like to travel?

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6 Tips for Setting Better Goals

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

What helps you set better goals? 10 Ways to Stick to Your Resolutions and Goals. If you are like the majority of us, then you spent the last couple of days in 2010 coming up. Setting Financial Goals: Make Them Smart and Simple You’ve heard the saying that nothing worthwhile is achieved without a goal?

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

” The survey released in 2010 indicated: “Average annual expenditures per consumer unit1 fell 2.0 percent in 2010 following a decrease of 2.8 Since then, the rate has been trending upward, reaching around 6% in the third quarter of 2010. percent compared with the July 2013 through June 2014 midyear average, the U.S.

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Giveaway: Dave Ramsey Package #wingiveaways

Saving Cents With Sense

His Financial Peace University teaches people how to make the right decisions regarding money and empowers them to achieve their financial goals. This giveaway ends Monday, March 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM EST (noon AZ time). 3) Join the Saving Cents with Sense community on Facebook and share the giveaway with friends.

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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

Family Balance Sheet

In June of 2010, we hit our rock bottom point. What are your financial goals now? It was many years of over spending and not having a plan for our money that led us to that point. What inspired you to get debt free? Was there a particular event? We cut way back on entertainment and vacations during debt repayment.

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5 Steps to Succeeding Your Goals

Family Balance Sheet

As I planned my goals for 2012, I realized that I made only one goal for myself in 2011. In 2010, a very close friend called me excitedly to tell me all about her first half-marathon. I learned so much that I hope to apply these lessons to my personal and financial goals for 2012. 5 Steps to Succeeding Your Goals.

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