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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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Have pictures of your Why around in your daily life to help keep you motivated. Tracking your progress and making it visual do so much to motivate you to find more ways to cut expenses/earn more to get that debt paid off as quickly as possible, especially when it takes a long time and you get discouraged. Track your progress.

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How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!)

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If they are, you can consider putting the extra funds into an emergency fund, pay off a credit card, or save for another financial goal. If you have financial goals, budgeting will be an important tool to reaching those goals. This group is a safe place where we talk, motivate, and share ideas about budgeting.

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

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I’m a Grade 7 teacher and my husband is a Mac Tools distributor. We are currently working towards fully funding our emergency fund. The other thing we did to keep us motivated and stop us from feeling paralyzed by the amount we were facing was to keep a visual chart. What are your financial goals now?

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