Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 6

Posted by Madison on June 12th, 2008

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 [...]

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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 4

Posted by Madison on May 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 3

Posted by Madison on May 8th, 2008

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 [...]

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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 2

Posted by Madison on May 1st, 2008

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 [...]

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Create Your Own Dollar Plan: Step 1

Posted by Madison on April 24th, 2008

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. Today [...]

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