Thursday, July 12, 2007

Where are we headed in life?

On your current path in life where are you headed? A good indication of where you are headed is by looking to see where you have come from. Look back on life, and see how much progress you have made to reaching your life's goals. Do you have a goal of being debt free? Do you have a goal of retiring early, or sending your kids to college? Maybe you want to give money away to charities? Have you been able to do any of that yet? Do you want to start your own business? Have you taken any proactive steps towards your goals? Or, are you just living each day one day at a time with no real aim to your daily life? Is life living you or are you living life?

You don't have to look at life as a whole for some of us that seems overwhelming, break your goals down to yearly, monthly or even weekly. Then focus on daily task to reach those goals. In other words if you have a goal of paying of $10,000 of debt in one year. Then first break that down to monthly goals of $800 a month to pay off. There are two ways to pay down debt, first either make more money that's what I did and here is how I did it. Or cut back your living expenses to pull extra money out of your current income to start paying down debt. Now if your goal is to pay down debt you have to ask yourself each day. Am I actively taking steps to help me reach my goal today? Too often it's easy to write our goals down but not keep ourselves accountable to them. Then we end up with goals that we never reach.

Are currently taking steps to reach your goals? Let me know?

Step by step,
Jackie O'Quinn
Phone: 1-800-620-3019

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