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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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Wonder what sets you apart from the people that seem to crush their financial goals? These folks didn’t corner the market on goal success either, instead they just got the task DONE. Their 2017 goal is to boost their savings rate and get their expenses down to $30,000 a year as they work towards financial independence.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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The journey started in 2012 when we bought an office building for our business and then found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. Our 2019 Financial Goal. We can now move on to other financial goals. Our Debt Freedom Plan has been a long winding road. We were trying to be responsible.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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Did you make 2018 financial goals ? My husband and I discussed some ideas over our holiday break and we decided on 2 solid must-achieve financial goals for the year. If we complete them early, we’ll move on to 2 additional goals that are on our radar. Our Debt Freedom Plan (2013).

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How to Create a Family Balance Sheet + Get a FREE one for your family!

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My Excel spreadsheet listed our short-term and long-term account balances, our debts, and our short-term and long-term financial goals. Personally, our goal is to OWN more than we OWE and to eventually OWE zero. Having everything on one page made our money discussions much easier. It showed him what we OWE and what we OWN.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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The point of the starter emergency fund is to get you through until you pay off your non-mortgage debts, at which point, you build a more extensive fund. Listed below is our original debt freedom plan that we wrote back in 2013. Our Debt Freedom Plan – written in 2013. How to Build your Emergency Fund. Prioritize.

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Take Control of Your Money in 2015

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My husband and I make some financial goals at the start of every year. In 2013, The Christmas Savings Club encouraged all of us to save monthly so that we could have a cash Christmas. 12 Scriptures for Goals and Guidance | Julie @ Loving Christ Ministries. Lots of possibilities and many opportunities.

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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We also were working on paying for Jon’s master’s degree and then my own masters degree, which I completed in December 2013. What are your financial goals now? Currently our goal is to max out both of our Roth IRA accounts each year.

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