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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt. From what we learned in the course, we wrote our Debt Freedom Plan. We loosely based our plan on Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps, but modified them to address our needs and lifestyle. 2018 Update.

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

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If you figure that out you can then work to find healthier ways to fill the void and you can free yourself permanently from the bonds of debt. We tend to get so wrapped up wishing and dreaming about the end result that we never start the process. We focused and paid off 2 loans by end of 2015, and one loan in 2016.