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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. What are your financial goals for 2018 and beyond?

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt. We loosely based our plan on Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps, but modified them to address our needs and lifestyle. Our 2019 Financial Goal. We can now move on to other financial goals.

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Family Office Manager

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I read this book around the same time that I became a mother and left the full-time workforce to stay at home with our new baby. It was a hard transition for me to go from being a major financial contributor in our marriage to staying at home with a baby and not bringing in a paycheck. Project short-term cash needs.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Amanda currently homeschools their three kids. Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments. We followed Dave Ramsey’s baby steps. We sold our house so now we are on Baby Step 4!

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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He now works as an architect, and I do some freelance from home now that we have kids. Luckily, even without misguided financial beliefs, we did pay off a significant portion of our debt before having kids. After we had kids, though, I stayed home, so we continued making the minimum payment for years.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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He calls it his 7 Baby Steps. At that time, our kids were 8 & 6, and now they’re both teenagers and wrapping up ninth & seventh grades. You can choose to explicitly follow Dave’s 7 baby steps, however, we modified them to address our needs and lifestyle. I reread it recently and sobbed like a baby.

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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The fear of losing my baby led to the desire for me to be a stay at home mom, but I knew that would never work if we were in such debt. We started listening to Dave Ramsey and followed his baby steps pretty closely. I will say I am excited to take our kids places now. What are your financial goals now?

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