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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 it visual.

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5 Essential Money Tips for Newlyweds

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Share things you like spending money on (things vs. experiences), as well as your reasons for some of the money decisions that you make. Really get into the “why” behind your financial decisions. If you want to accomplish anything together as a couple, you need to have shared goals.

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

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Another book that really helped was The Debt-Free Spending Plan by JoAnnah Nagler. Her ideas were simple to implement and only took a few minutes a day. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. He leaves most of the financial goals up to me, but we make the decisions together.

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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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Today’s Debt Free Story is from Charissa. She helps readers gain control of their finances and live well on a budget at her blog Cook with a Shoe . I also appreciated the simple, common-sense advice and the baby steps. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt. Where are you from?

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Create your debt freedom plan

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Stressed out, we ventured into Dave Ramsey’s online Financial Peace University home course for help. Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. We thought we were doing really well. But Dave Ramsey’s view of debt is very different. Prioritize.

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Find out how Richard paid off $40,000 of debt

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I was trapped in a cycle of low wages and accruing debt , and lost more than a few night’s sleep over my situation. Did you follow a particular debt freedom plan or book, such as Dave Ramsey or Debt-Proof Living? Here in the UK gurus like Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman aren’t too well-known. Yes, but not yet!

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