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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 6

By now you’ve put in a lot of work defining your goals, prioritizing them and calculating the costs. It’s finally time to implement!
Here’s the steps we’ve already covered:

Step 1: Brainstorming
Step 2: Assigning Numerical Values
Step 3: Calculating Total Cost
Step 4: Reflecting on Priorities and Values
Step 5: Fit Your Goals To Your Budget

Step 6: Track Your Progress
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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 4

It’s time for Step 4 in the series! I like this step because you are truly aligning where your money goes to your values. Nothing feels better than putting your money towards your true desires.
Previous Steps:

Step 1: Brainstorming
Step 2: Assigning Numerical Values
Step 3: Calculating Total Cost

Step 4: Reflecting on priorities and values.
Reflect. Once you [...]


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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 3

If you like numbers, step 3 should be a fun one! If you are following along with the series, you should have your brainstorming from step 1 and your grid of goals from step 2 done.
Step 3: Calculating Total Cost
This step will probably take the longest of all the steps. Give yourself some extra [...]


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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 2

Now that you have step 1 complete and have a nice list of goals, it’s time to put the goals in a working order.
Step 2: Assigning Numerical Values
This isn’t necessarily a priority order, but rather an order to work on the goals as you fit them together in your dollar plan. Consider it the [...]


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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 1

The foundation of My Dollar Plan is actually the same as the name… it’s based on our dollar plan. Readers wanted to know what it looks like, how we created it and how we manage our finances to it. So far I’ve only mentioned it in theory and haven’t explained the nuts and bolts.

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