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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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However, 2019 was the first year that I found a word that I could stand by. I adored my word and everything about what I was trying to achieve for 2019. By the end of 2019, I achieved one major bullet point and the others will continue to be a work in progress. ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). 4 – Reduce my sweets.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Our 2019 Financial Goal. Happy New Year’s 2019: In January 2019, we were down to one final non-mortgage loan, so we created just one financial goal for the year—-to pay off that last non-mortgage debt by December. Our Debt Freedom Plan (October 2019 Update): Exact numbers have been omitted at this time.

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Our 2023 Financial Goals

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The last time we wrote numbers-driven financial goals was 2019. In 2020, our financial goals were to read, research, and understand both college and retirement planning. Our oldest is a junior in high school and college becomes reality in the fall of 2024. We want to assist our daughters with their college expenses.

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My Word for 2021

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But 2019 was different. By the end of 2019, we nailed one major bullet point and I was on cloud nine. Read: A 2019 Recap. After 2019, I had a lot of hope for finding a word for 2020 but struggled to find one that was meaningful to me. 2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update. My word was REDUCE. Read: My 2020 Financial Goals.

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Music Minute - Leah Marie Mason: Me Or My Hometown

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When you're in college it doesn't seem so big, so permanent…my home didn't feel like home anymore and it was the weirdest feeling. After following her dreams to Nashville in 2019, Mason continues to turn heads with her diary-like lyricism and her fresh, airy vocals. This song is an internal dialogue of how I was feeling at that moment.”

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Smart Safety: Release Recovery Podcast

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It’s never been “easy” to send children off to college. Many of Release’s clients are students, and Clark’s own addiction progressed while he was a student—as he explains on a new podcast pulling back the curtain on the college experience and showing parents the real challenges and risks their teens are facing.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Number 4 was knocked out in 2019. We sent our very last payment to my husband’s student loan in September 2019, the same month I turned 50. Update: DONE Sept 2019!! DONE November 2019. Start college funds for our two girls. October 2019 Update to our Debt Freedom Plan – We PAID off 6 figures of debt!!

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