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

Family Balance Sheet

Wonder what sets you apart from the people that seem to crush their financial goals? with their goals. These folks didn’t corner the market on goal success either, instead they just got the task DONE. His 2017 goal is to make $100,000 in online income. She hit that goal in September 2016. Getting Started.

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A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish

Family Balance Sheet

I manage the finances for our business and our family and by August 2013, I felt the weight of the situation. Sitting down with my husband to discuss our situation was one of the hardest conversations I have ever had in our marriage, but I felt so much relief getting it off my chest. My husband and I had children later in life.

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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

Motherhood Moments

They certainly are—indeed, Magee’s own son tragically died of an accidental drug overdose in 2013—and they need just as much parental attention, empathy, and understanding as girls do. Hold regular conversations to normalize how teens are feeling. Too many parents preach or hold one-sided conversations with our children.

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Parenting Pointers: Tips for a Screen-Free Holiday

Motherhood Moments

SET GOALS Encourage your child to make a list of things they want to do or accomplish with their extra time. Spice Up Mealtime Convo Make family dinnertime more interesting with conversation starters and leave your screens off the table. Phones and other personal screens are completely out of sight during these times.

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5 Lessons Learned When Our Finances Went Awry

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August 2013 was a month that I’d like to wipe from my memory. But in August 2013, our business softened, renovations to our new building were more costly than planned, and we were now the owners of two mortgages, our home and our business. Read my other Women Inspired posts here: A Goal without a Plan is just a Wish.

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

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We also were working on paying for Jon’s master’s degree and then my own masters degree, which I completed in December 2013. It’s not specifically for debt repayment, but if he hadn’t built up the courage to ask for the raise that he deserved, we wouldn’t have moved as quickly toward our goals.

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Global Newborn Health

Nicoles Nickels

From April 15 – 18, 2013 the first global conference on newborn health, the Global Newborn Health Conference , will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Become a part of the conversation. Did you know that complications of preterm birth are the second leading cause of death in children before their fifth birthday?

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