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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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What are YOUR Financial Goals? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Today’s assignment: List your SMART financial goals. Earlier this year, my husband and I wrote a specific list of financial goals and named it Our Debt Freedom Plan. Prior this plan, we had set goals, but never before had we been so specific with a step by step approach. Is it to pay off your house?

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My Life Plan

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I broke my goals into two categories: Financial and Personal. Our Financial Goals: Pay off our non-mortgage debt. Celebrate debt freedom with a big family trip to Hawaii or Paris. My Personal Goals: Along with the financial goals my husband and I set together, I have my own personal goals too.

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Chit Chat: 06.17.18

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, we’re working on our Financial Vision Board in the month of June. The topic came to me when I realized that my husband and I haven’t really talked about our future financial goals in awhile. We talked about our 2018 financial goals back in late December, but we didn’t look past the current year.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Cash flow a FAMILY TRIP TO HAWAII. So often, we don’t dream about our financial goals, because we are so entrenched in our challenges. We still have a mortgage, so we’re not truly debt-free. We’ll eventually get to this step, but we have much to do with steps 6, 7, and 8. Prioritize.

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Allstate Insurance Review 2024 | Bankrate

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Lastly, we reviewed each insurer’s local agency availability, digital tools, corporate sustainability and giveback programs and national availability (which we define as being available in at least 48 states, since many insurers do not operate in Alaska or Hawaii). Age is not a contributing rating factor in Hawaii and Massachusetts.