Goals Update
By Matt - Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
One of the things I wanted to look at when I started writing again was reviewing the goals I had set for myself at the beginning of the year. And needless to say I haven’t been very good with keeping on top of them in fact I’ve been pretty dreadful. On that note I’ve been concentrating on work a lot these past few months and whatever time was left over went to the wedding and just de-stressing a bit. I’m starting to write more regularily again or at least I’m planning to so I think I need to get everything else in order as well starting with these goals.
So here’s my assessment/status of my goals:
Goal #1 – save $7,000 for the wedding – I haven’t managed to save the money but I did manage to get the money either given to me or promised by parents so the wedding will be covered. I was hoping that I’d be able to bring this in without resorting to handouts but there are times when that simply isn’t possible.
Goal #2 – Save about $4,000 for the honeymoon – this one simply didn’t happen at all. We’re still taking our honeymoon but we’re putting it on credit cards and going to use the gifts from the wedding to cover off as much as possible of this. I’m disappointed in myself for this one.
Goal #3 – Read one business book a week and wrote a post reviewing the books – For this one I got so busy with work that my interest in this waned and the goal got derailed. I would like to get this goal back up and running – reading the business books was something I enjoyed and I think I should continue. One of the books that got me going on this site is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – I think I’ll reread this one since I find it very inspirational.
I also think I need to review my goals and start some new ones but smaller ones so they’re more achievable.
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One Response to “Goals Update”
1 An Engineering Approach to Money » Blog Archive » All Liabilities are Not Equal says:
April 26th, 2007
at 11:29 pm
[…] I know you’re going to be shocked, but just like the fact than All Assets are Not Equal, the same holds true for liabilities. A liability is something that you owe. Most liabilities are loans of one form or another. I’m sure you’ve all heard how bad credit card debt is, this is a clear example of a bad liability. Any time you are borrowing money to purchase anything other than an good asset you are incurring a bad liability, I’ve talked about this before. The worst of the worst is to use debt to purchase a service. While reading blogs the other day I stumbled across a guy who was going to finance his Honeymoon with credit card debt. This is a huge mistake, and is incurring the worst kind of debt. If you are putting “fun” stuff on your credit card because you have not saved the cash for them, then you are simply living beyond your means. In this case Matt simply can’t afford this Honeymoon and would be much better spending less, perhaps much less. How about a nice camping trip at a National Park Matt? […]
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