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New Years Resolutions

Set SMART goals

by The CalendarBudget TeamMon Jan 04, 2010 Budgeting

Today’s Tip: Include financial goals as part of your New Year’s resolutions.
Set SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relaistic, and Time-bound).
For example, you may set a goal to save $3,000 by August to prepay for a winter 2010 vacation. Evaluate your progress at regular intervals and adjust your efforts or goal when necessary.
A goal is [...]

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Prioritize Your Debts: Pay Off High Interest Rate Debts First

by Moneyproblems TipsThu Dec 31, 2009 Money Saving Tips

If you spend less than you make you will gradually accumulate cash. For most people, any extra cash they make simply goes towards repaying their debts. But how do I know what debts to repay first?
Today’s Tip: Make a New Year’s Resolution to prioritize your debts for repayment. Here’s a quiz for you:
John [...]

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Spend Less Than You Make

by Moneyproblems TipsWed Dec 30, 2009 Budgeting

The most important New Year’s Resolution is to make a budget, but a budget is only helpful if you use it to help you spend less.
The secret to great wealth is to spend less than you make.
That may sound radical, but it’s true. Most of us believe that if I could just earn more money, [...]

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Why Making a Budget is the Most Important New Year’s Resolution

by Moneyproblems TipsTue Dec 29, 2009 Budgeting

Yesterday we discussed setting goals to start the Financial New Year’s Resolution process. With goals in mind, you can now take the most important step in any financial planning process:
Make a budget.
Money problems Tip of the Day readers are familiar with personal budgeting; in fact, our most popular tip of the day is our tip [...]

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Financial New Year’s Resoultions

by Moneyproblems TipsMon Dec 28, 2009 New Years Resolutions

Christmas is over (although it would be a good idea to review our Christmas Tips for next year), and now is the time when we all focus on our New Year’s Resolutions. For the next two weeks all of our Money Problems Tip of the Day will deal with Financial New Year’s Resolutions, so [...]

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