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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? These folks didn’t corner the market on goal success either, instead they just got the task DONE. She hit that goal in September 2016. Her 2017 goal is to save $20,000 in cash. How can you Achieve your Financial Goals?

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

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What are your hobbies? The debt consisted of my student loans and a car loan. I went through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University when I was 18 years old. That inspired me to be intentional with my finances and to follow Dave’s six steps. In those meetings, one of the things we discuss is finances.

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

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) Then my husband decided to pay off his car. We also went through multiple job losses, surgeries, huge car repairs, etc. Where are you from?

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Shannon & Her Husband Paid off $22,000 in 9 Months

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What are your hobbies? That’s about it for hobbies, as our little ones are 1 and 3. Once we both took a look at our budget and finances, it was clear what we needed to do. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? After we got out of debt, we did pay cash for a used car.

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Find out how Deacon & his Wife Paid off $52,000 of Debt in 18 Months

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He is a financial coach and blogs at Well Kept Wallet. What are your hobbies? I own two different business, Phoenix SEO Company which helps businesses get on the first page of Google and Well Kept Wallet which is a Financial Education company. It consisted of student loans, a car loan and even some credit card debt.

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Find out how Lydia & her Husband Paid off $36,000 in Debt in 2 Years

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What are your hobbies? We paid off $36,000 in student loans, credit cards, cars and a bit of medical debt. But I would say the breaking point came in June of 2011 when I was in a car wreck. We had a rough few years financially and we just looked at each other one day and realized we couldn’t live like that anymore.

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Find Out How Ruth and Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage

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What are your hobbies? We paid off the remainder of our mortgage, which was about $150,000, as well as some law school loans, and a car loan. Working towards becoming debt free and finally getting on the same page with our finances was actually great for our marriage. What are your financial goals now?

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