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home page updated 11/16/09 |
"Is there more you want to do with your money or more you want your money to do?" asks Rowdy Cents.
This question has everything to do with setting financial goals. You’ve probably heard about goals ever since you were in high school and then more in the form of questions like "What are your goals for the next five years? What are you going to do with your life? How are you going to pay your bills?; Where are you going to college? What kind of job are you going to get?" ---and on and on it goes.
A written goal gives you clarity, focus, and direction. Make them SMART and remember, “Shift happens”. You may have to change your goals and that’s okay. Writing down goals serves as a visual reminder to keep you on the right road to financial self-reliance.
(Practical Money Skills for Life TM offers lesson plans and student activities for teaching young children through college age students about budgeting and setting financial goals.)
Consider this from Young Money Magazine, December 08/January 09 edition: “A famous Yale study found that the 3% of Yale graduates who had written goals had more wealth years later than the other 97% of the class combined.”
Rowdy Cents says, "Building wealth means saving money and decreasing or eliminating debt."
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