Welcome to Week #27 of our iChoose2 Love My Life: one-year journey toward living a life you love!
This week we’re choosing to create and live my a routine. Your Week #27 video is below. After you watch the video, please leave a comment below sharing your favorite tool for either creating or living by a budget.
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About Kelly Thorne Gore
So excited you all dedicate a full month to getting finances in order because finances are one of the things that can really hold people back from following their God-given passions and calling! My husband and I use mint.com to track our budget and work toward financial goals. It allows us each to track our finances in real time and participate in the budget together. One big thing we’ve learned is we can’t get frustrated and give up if we go over in a category one month. We just cut back in other categories that month. If we are consistently over in a category, we check to see if we need to either a) adjust our budget so we have a more realistic amount to spend in that category that we can live in, or b) make some lifestyle changes to help us keep to that amount. Biggest thing is not to wait to start getting your finances on track. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes later on, so thanks Kelly for the encouragement to start taking proactive steps now. You all rock!
I enjoyed this week’s video because I am on the path to becoming a better person. I have made a point this year to use budgets to keep a handle on the money that I spend to start saving money for things such as vehicle, my own place, emergency savings, etc. The best tool I have come across so far is Mint.com. It is free and enables you to set up as many budgets as you want, as well as savings goals, along with attaching your accounts to the website to set up alerts such as low account balances, or excessive use. I just love it!
Yes Kelly I did “cringe” when I thought of a WHOLE month about finances!!
But then I realized that everything happens for a reason and I need to focus on this month’s theme and make it work for myself and my 2 daughters. I was never really taught how to handle money and I don’t want the same for my daughters. So I’m looking forward to what you have set up for the month and passing it on to them. HUGS