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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? 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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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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Our emergency fund. I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. We reduced our spending where we could, but the money to pay any shortfall each month came from our emergency fund. It kept me up at night.

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

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Because we wanted to get out of debt as fast as possible, we stopped saving money after we had an emergency fund in place. Our goal is to meet with experts and ask them for advice. Who initiated the debt free goal? The tension would come when we didn’t have a plan and didn’t communicate about finances.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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A life goal of ours is. emergency fund, so we started throwing what little extra we had straight. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? Communicating well and communicating often has made talking about. What are your financial goals now? First, we will save our six-month emergency fund.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

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I am a big believer in communicating. ” Dividend Growth Investor from Dividend Growth Investor shares how Dividend losers focus on excuses that prevent them from achieving their goals of financial freedom. Dividend Winners on the other hand, focus on creating specific goals, and the steps to make them a reality.

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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We had tried other methods in the past, but found this one suited us best since it forced us to focus on one goal at a time, rather than trying to do it all (pay off debt and contribute to savings and retirement). If married, who initiated the debt free goal? I think communication and being on the same page really helped out.

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Find Out How Olivia & Her Husband Paid off Their Mortgage in 33 Months

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Our initial goal was to pay off our 15 year mortgage in 7-8 years by doubling our payment each month. Our goal is to write down expenses every day so we know where we are in our budget that month, but to be honest, this probably happens 1-2 times a week now. If married, who initiated the debt free goal?

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