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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? They seem to be everywhere on Facebook, blogs, radio shows, and websites. with their 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.

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Small Money Mistakes That Have Big Consequences

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This includes cable TV, magazine and radio subscriptions, movies, pagers and cell phones. Not Having an Emergency Fund It is dangerous to spend every cent you earn and not to have buffer against illness, injury, job loss or hard economic times. Make establishing an emergency fund a priority.

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The Deadly Sins of Personal Finance

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Consumerism stems from many places but can start from when we are young children if we are exposed to television and radio ads. Laziness limits our earning potential, our saving potential and our ability to meet important goals. We’ll be much better off financially if we turn our backs on consumerism.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. But at the beginning of our journey to pay off the debt, I was listening to Dave Ramsey on the radio. We moved the goal post multiple times. Read: How We Watch Great TV without Cable. How do you eat an elephant?

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Meet Aja. She & her husband Paid Off $110,000 in Debt

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For the last two years, I told anyone who would listen about us trying to make our goal of being totally debt free. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? When I heard Dave Ramsey on the radio for the first time, I knew it was exactly what we needed. What are your financial goals now? I am the nerd.

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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? What are your financial goals now?

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