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Monthly Review: January 2024
Part of setting financial goals – or at least achieving them – is having accountability. A process by which you hold yourself accountable for doing what you say you are going to do. I have 2. Firstly my monthly money meeting with my brother. I put him on the path to FI when I bought him The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins (if you haven’t read it, it really is a life changer) for his birthday last year. Now that we’re on this financial journey together we meet on the first Wednesday of every month to go through our spreadsheets – and generally have a good gossip. It’s…
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My Goals for 2024 – Plus How I Set Them (and Achieve Them)
Maybe it’s a first child thing, or a perfectionist thing (or a female thing?) but I have always been a goal setter. I used to set BIG goals for milestone birthdays – 30 things to do before I am 30 (learn Cantonese and start the adoption process was 2 things on that list… alongside stay in a castle and attend a movie premiere – it was quite the eclectic list) And at the start of each year I liked to set 3 goals for my career, 3 personal goals and 3 things to look forward to. I never wanted to be stagnant, or for a year to slip by and…