A few weeks back I talked about attempting one of my financial goals. The goal seemed simple enough, keep my discretionary spending to under $100 a month. Well I’m here to say that I failed that goal miserably. I blew through that $100 dollars in less than 10 days and am now on my second $100 allotment. So [...]

In my recent goal review I set a new short term financial goal, “Keep my personal spending to under $100/month”. Well we are now in a new month and yesterday I finally took out my $100 for the month. I think this will be an extremely tough goal for me and I am doubtful I can achieve it. Now [...]

Reviewing your goals and creating news ones is key to being successful. After looking at my goals for 2009 I’ve given myself a B thus far .  I’ve completed some of my short term goals and most of my other goals are on track. I do believe I could have done better on some but I still have 4 months [...]

The key to achieving success in anything is setting goals. Goals allow you to break up larger ambitions into smaller stepping-stones and successes. Setting goals at variable lengths of time also draws a map of where you need to get to as well as gauge your progression so that you can adjust your goals along the way as needed.
Goals can [...]