Category — Personal Growth

As you can see from the time stamp on this post, it’s way too early. My alarm went off at an astounding 5:00am (yawn.)

Normally I am a night person. If I didn’t have a job I would probably stay up until 2:00 or 3:00am every night and sleep in until noon. However, I’ve discovered that that schedule doesn’t really work in the ‘real world.’ So here’s the plan…

I intend to learn how to become an early riser.

I guess this is a little off topic from my usual financial articles, but I think it’s important nonetheless. Financial freedom goes hand-in-hand with personal discipline. So here’s my theory, if I can become an early riser I will be more productive, if I’m more productive I will stay caught up with everything that I have to get done, if I’m caught up with everything that I have to get done then I’m less stressed, if I’m less stressed then I will be less inclined to make those ‘feel good’ shopping trips, the ‘I’m to tired to cook’ food runs, and my most used excuse ‘I worked all day and the last thing I want to do is update my finances.’ [Read more →]

Part of the journey to financial freedom involves setting goals. If you look to the left you can find a page with all of my long-term financial goals. But, there’s more to smart planning than long-term goals. You must have specific short-term goals also.

Dustin at LittleAmerica.us inspired me with his blog goal of $100 per month.

So, here I am with my blog’s goal for December, to generate $50 from December 1 to December 31. I plan to accomplish this through advertising and selling posts.

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While I was sitting around this morning I was thinking about my life. I was thinking about my plans and my [tag] goals [/tag]. Where do I want to go? Where am I at on my [tag]personal goals[/tag]? Do you ever think about this kind of stuff? It really challenges me when I see what my goals are and where I am in relation to those goals. I’ll tell you that I am no expert in this type of thing, but what I can tell you is my view and how I handle it in my own life.

The 4 areas in my life that I set goals for:

1) Financially
2) Physically
3) Relationally
4) Spiritually

When setting goals, I always look at the big picture first. I’m a Z to A kind of a guy. I like to look at the finished product and work backwards. Here are my financial goals. My main goal is the first one; the other goals are the sub goals that will get me to my main goal.

My [tag]financial[/tag] goals:

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