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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? These folks didn’t corner the market on goal success either, instead they just got the task DONE. Their 2017 goal is to boost their savings rate and get their expenses down to $30,000 a year as they work towards financial independence.

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What are YOUR Financial Goals? | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Today’s assignment: List your SMART financial goals. Earlier this year, my husband and I wrote a specific list of financial goals and named it Our Debt Freedom Plan. Prior this plan, we had set goals, but never before had we been so specific with a step by step approach. Is it to pay off your house?

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How We Frugal-ed in September 2022

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I’m always looking for ways to save my family money to help us get through current higher food and gas prices and achieve our big financial goals. At one time I planted quite a bit, but weeds overtook my garden and turned my favorite hobby into a stressful mess. Some months are more successful than others. Sunday Prep.

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Chit Chat: 06.17.18

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The garden was my hobby for many years, but in the end, the weeds took over so much that I stopped enjoying my hobby and it became a dreadful chore. we’re working on our Financial Vision Board in the month of June. I followed the Square Foot Gardening technique and it served me well for many years.

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Marriage and Money: 5 Tips To Reduce the Money Arguments

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My husband and I have worked through our differences about money over the last 12 years. Make Clear Financial Goals {Together}. Take some time to discuss your family and marriage's financial goals. Write down your goals and make them visible. Own up to any financial indiscretions.

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

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What are your hobbies? That’s one of my hobbies.) Your money stays yours, so you can make it work for you. Travel, buy fun stuff, give gifts, help others, work if I feel like it and not if I don’t, etc. When’s our debt free date now that I sent in that $1000 from that extra work?

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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What are your hobbies? We have always loved to travel and do missions work for our church. Daniel can work anywhere there is an internet connection and the kids can homeschool anywhere, but we didn’t have the money to buy the plane tickets or book AirBnB apartments. Who initiated the debt free goal? Where are you from?

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