Establishing Financial Goals

The first important step for your strategy to a secure financial future is always to have goals. When we don‘t have goals we drift and by the end of our work lives, we wonder why we didn‘t do that we wanted.

Once we have goals, we achieve these, especially if they are in written form. Now you will have short-term and long-term goals. You need to define short-term goals first; it may include buying a car or travelling. Long term goals are your house, your children‘s education and the retirement.

Lay out your life financial goals, for your entire life. It is tough because we generally have short-term horizons. But, you need to take into account all your goals now because many of them will take a long time and energy to achieve. According to The Details of Saving and Investing (1999) create by the SEC, two away from three of all US families don't reach one major financial aim. Identify you can define financial or saving targets that excite you, like staying home with all the kids; paying off your mortgage; starting your own personal business; helping others, plus more. Set realistic goals.

Those goals are specific, measurable (exact amount of money), attainable or reasonable, realistic, time-related.

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