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7 Ways to Improve Your Diet

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Cook at home. Cooking at home not only saves you money but it also keeps you in control of what you are putting into your body. By planning ahead, the task of cooking at home doesn’t need to be time consuming. This keeps you from getting bored and keeps you motivated to eat well.

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Start Small; Dream Big: Achieving Financial Security From Small Beginnings

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This dream motivates you to put in the effort. Bobbi started cooking at home instead of always dining out. “I I discovered I really love to cook. This book, as well as others he has written, changed the way a whole generation of people thought about money and wealth. Otherwise, it just doesn’t happen.

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How this Couple Eliminated $180,000 of Debt in 12 Months!

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We also listed to The Dave Ramsey Show every day for daily motivation while we worked the baby steps. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out. So we would cook at home and take leftovers for lunch the next day. What are the top 3 – 5 ways you found money to put towards debt.

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Remember to Celebrate Your Success

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But, I’m convinced that celebrating success is much more motivating than punishing yourself for real or imagined failures. Cooking at home. Any of us can easily list all of the things we do wrong each day, but do we ever think about what we did right? Thinking about your success makes you feel good. Trimming your budget.

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Find out how Jessica paid off $56,000 of student loans, credit cards, and a car loan.

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It took me five years to pay off my debt but two of those years I had a job loss, I was taking care of my grandparents and I had lost my motivation and drive to pay off the debt. Stop eating out – it’s so much better for your wallet and your waistline to cook at home. I had planned to pay it all off in 2.5