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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? They pay off mountains of debt and scream about debt freedom, or maybe they save gobs of money in a record amount of time, or they have considerable success with their new small business. Make a commitment. .

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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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He took all of our financial information and put together a plan for us to get out of debt as fast as possible. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Because we wanted to get out of debt as fast as possible, we stopped saving money after we had an emergency fund in place.

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

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The software generated a monthly revenue, but we were able to sell them to pay off the rest of our debt immediately. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. We do meet every month to go over expenses and needs.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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

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When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt.

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Meet Carrie. She Paid Off $14,000 in Debt in 14 Months.

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The income from my extra jobs went straight to debt payments, and my regular day job paid the bills, while enabling me to build up a small amount of savings. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. What are your financial goals now?

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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My husband has always been the one who has felt the full weight of our debt. He was always trying to put us on budgets, help us look for ways to save and not spend so much but we never found a system that worked for us and continued in spending behaviors that didn’t help advance goals.

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