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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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Aja’s wanted to boost her online income to an additional $2000 a month. Maureen, from The Debt Free Mess Free Life , suggests that you understand what motivates you to act unwisely and spend frivolously (if that is your situation). She and her husband also used a visual motivation chart posted on their refrigerator.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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He went back to school at the age of 34 to pursue a new career and has not regretted it, but his student loan was about the size of a small home mortgage when he graduated in 2000. The student loan should be paid off by the end of 2018. Projected pay off date December 2018. So what does this mean? We bought our home in 2001.

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