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Understanding Personal Finance. Needs vs. Wants. Setting and Achieving Your Goals. Create—Stick to it! Evaluate Short-term vs. long-term. Set SMART Goals. S: Specific M: Measurable A: Attainable R: Realistic T: Time Bound. Set SMART Goals. “ I want to go on vacation. ”.
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Setting and Achieving Your Goals • Create—Stick to it! • Evaluate • Short-term vs. long-term
Set SMART Goals S: Specific M: Measurable A: Attainable R: Realistic T: Time Bound
Set SMART Goals “I want to go on vacation.”
Set SMART Goals “My spouse and I want to go to Japan for a week next May, so I will need to save $300 a month over the next year for my portion of the trip.”
Making Your Budget Income Evaluate/Re-Evaluate Your Budget Expenses Put It Together Pay Yourself First
Improving Your Budget • Sweat the small stuff. • Eliminate unnecessary expenses. • Sell unneeded items. • Examine your insurance. • Create an emergency fund.
Establishing a Safety Net Build it. Keep it. Review it.
Parting Words Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. —Woody Allen