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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 pay off mountains of debt and scream about debt freedom, or maybe they save gobs of money in a record amount of time, or they have considerable success with their new small business. She hit that goal in September 2016.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Updates on our Debt Freedom Plan over the years: Our Original Debt Freedom Plan – written in March 2014. Our 2019 Financial Goal. … cue the Jefferson Starship song, “Nothing’s going to stop us now”… Fast forward to September. . We can now move on to other financial goals.

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Create your debt freedom plan

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To stay motivated I would listen to the debt-free screams on The Dave Ramsey Show. If others could knock out debt, we could too. We sent our very last payment to my husband’s student loan in September 2019, the same month I turned 50. Paying off debt is not fun. I cried for two days–lol!

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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. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. When the smallest loan was paid off, we put that minimum payment towards the next smallest loan.

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