Setting Financial Goals that You Can Actually Achieve

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It’s officially the “New Year” and, if you’re like a lot of people, you’re probably working on setting some amazing financial goals for the year. Financial goal setting can be scary, overwhelming, or even incredibly exciting depending on the result that you’re working towards.

Listen to the Episode

The Foundation Series

• How to Set Goals for the Upcoming Year

• How to Choose a Word for the Year (and not forget it)

• Creating the Best Vision Board for Your Year

• Setting Financial Goals that You Can Achieve

• The Importance of Creating a Money Manifesto

• Picking the Right Conference to Move Yourself Forward

• Why Networking HAS to Be On Your To-do List

Setting Financial Goals

Is an incredibly introspective and intense process. Many people avoid it because (if you’re smart) part of the process of achieving your goals is to spend time reflecting on your role in getting the results that you’re currently getting.

Many people in the personal finance space get WAY TOO meta about the process that people should take to achieve their goals.

I say-do what you can commit to. That simple. If you’re trying to pay off debt, save, make more, just use the process that you will actually commit to.

Before You Start

• Find a community of like-minded people such as FinCon

• • Read the book “Overcoming Underearning” by Barbara Stanny

  

   

  • Believe

   

  • Commit

   

  • Focus on micro-actions, and, as you get into a rhythm and experience successful outcomes-make adjustments along the way

  Do a Financial Audit

  Spend time looking at where your money is going. You may be running a tight ship! Or, you might find that there is room for improvement. Look at the following line items in your budget:

  • App subscriptions
• • Regular subscriptions
• • Ongoing living expenses
• • Phone service
• • Internet
• • Transportation
• • Groceries
• • Personal upkeep-fashion/hair/nails/massages/etc
• • Gym Membership
• • Trips
• • Personal development-courses/conferences/etc.
• • Storage unit

Look at what absolutely can go and what you can keep by envisioning things differently. As I worked through my financial mess I still: traveled, shopped, at great food, and more-I just approached it very differently (and without using debt to do it)

$13,500

By embracing a financial audit before focusing on my goals I freed up THOUSANDS of dollars in cash that could be redirected to debt-repayment. Once I’m done repaying the bulk of my debts (sometime this year) I will be using that freed up cash. Also, by embracing the audit-you begin your financial goals feeling super empowered.

That $13,500 represents $1125 a month in freed up cash. Nice.

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