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Weekly Web Favorites

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

There were many great posts written in the blogosphere over the past week. Below are a few of my favorites.
The thing about goals [from Seth Godin] – Life would be easier if you didn’t bother to set any goals…but you’d be lagging behind your goal setting colleagues.
When Your Financial State Improves, Do Your [...]

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Going Back to School, Adding More Debt, Hoping I Made the Right Choice

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

I haven’t brought this up here on the blog yet, but one of my big plans for 2009 is going back to school and getting a Master’s Degree. I’m going to school online for the following (terribly long named) degree: Master of Business Administration with an
Emphasis in Management of Information Systems.
This is a good choice [...]

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My 2 Big Goals for 2009

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Based on the poor progress of last year, I’ve decided to keep things simple in 2009 and only focus on two big goals.
1. Lose 50 pounds
How I’ll get there:
I had the most success last year when I was part of a friendly weight-loss competition with some of my family. We helped motivate each other [...]

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2008 Goals Review and Preparing for the New Year

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

One year ago, I listed my goals for 2008. Here’s a review of my list from last year.

Pay off all Credit card debt – Failed! We paid off about half the total for the year. We could have done better, but there were too many times during the year that we slacked off on the [...]

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Credit Card Debt Finally Under 5 Figures

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

This is a great way to start off the New Year! As of the end of December our total credit card debt is finally under $10,000 ($9,776.07 as I write this). The balance has been just over $10,000 for about 2 months now, but I have slowed down payments recently as we may be facing [...]

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