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How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Life

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We’ve reduced the amount of red meat that we eat, increased the natural produce we enjoy, and started paying attention to our choices when we eat out. A little more mindfulness can help you change your habits, and improve your finances. Now, we feel better in general, and have more energy. Get Healthy'

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The Spending Plan Mentality

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Instead, our priorities, beyond investing in the future and taking care of our survival needs, boil down to four things: Extracurricular activities, like music lessons, Scouting, and sports, to help our son improve skills and help him become well-rounded. Travel, which my son and I enjoy. Eating out a few times a month.

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

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We paid for braces, college tuition for my son, and did fun stuff like traveling while we were paying off debt. I needed to count on myself and support my son, and that meant getting my financial life in order, starting with building an emergency fund for the first time. to a high of maybe $80,000/year. We hit everywhere in between.

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

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Here I was, leaning against his $20,000 truck, while my $15,000 car is sitting in the drive way of our $150,000 house, and through all this our 8 month old son was sleeping in his $400 crib, and I didn’t have $20 bucks of my own money to get gas. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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Everyone had unique motivation for working towards debt freedom: Jackie and her husband were sick of the stress that goes along with money issues. Jen and her husband were reeling after their son was diagnosed with a lifetime medical condition that would implode their finances. Eating out daily will add up.

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