lesson 14: Succeed with your New Year financial goals

It’s holiday time: no lessons for 3.. No, make that 4 weeks!!
December 20, 2009
lesson 15: think of the children
January 26, 2010

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The Sydney Sun Herald (17 Jan 2010, page 39) asked us how people could improve their chances of achieving their goals. We advised that goals should follow the SMARTER principle:

S=specific
M=measurable
A=accountable
R=realistic
T=timed
E=exciting
R=rewarding

As an example, you can see how “I want to be out of debt” differs from “I have paid $3000 off my credit card balance and have $1000 in savings by the 1st July 2010.” The second is a SMARTER goal. What’s yours?

3 Comments

  1. Me says:

    Good points, I think I will definitely subscribe! I’ll go and read some more! What do you see the future of this being?

  2. YMM says:

    Hi “Me”,

    Thank you for reading and your comment. The future of this blog is to have a lesson every 2 weeks, helping people raise their financial literacy and have healthier minds and bodies. For more information and to subscribe to the monthly newsletter of National Financial Fitness go to
    http://www.financialfitness.com.au This is the home of YMM

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