Archive for the ‘Goal Progress’ Category
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A Look Back at 2007 Goals
You know how to take the [rental car] reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation and that’s really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them. – Jerry Seinfeld Goals are a little bit like rental car reservations. Making goals is extremely easy. It’s achieving them [...]
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Non-Financial Goals: What if Your Money Problems were Solved?
About four months ago, Kenric of e-mailed me with a question. He has just written about post about non-financial goals and asked me “Do you have non-financial goals and how do they affect your financial goals?” In his post he gives examples of some non-financial goals: visiting the Grand Canyon, climbing Mt. Everest, sailing around [...]
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Planning and Goal Setting Week: Lazy Man’s 2007 Goals
Almost like a great high school guidance councilor Flexo has laid down the gauntlet to define my 2007 goals. I had been planning them in the back of my head, but it’s about I put those thoughts into electrons for all to read. You will see some similarities to Jim’s Blueprint for Financial Prosperity goals. [...]
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Paycheck Mystery is Solved
I mentioned yesterday that something seemed to be off with my paycheck. My instincts were right and the math was indeed off. It should be fixed next week, but in the short term my net worth will be off. I suppose I’ll make up for it next month.
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Net Worth Update – December Edition
My net worth has edged up so very little this month. It grew from 0.16% from $181,501.19 to $181,787.61. Quite frankly, I’m disappointed. Upon further review there were a number of factors at play that made this happen: My Hawaii Trip – Though it was a relatively cheap vacation, it’s still a vacatio. That meant [...]
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My Ever Expanding Retirement Goal
I have had a lot of difficulty figuring out what my retirement goal should be. I’m not alone in having this difficulty – after all retirement planning is an industry on it’s own. The biggest problem I’m having is trying to project 35 years in the future. The more I think about it, the race [...]
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My Net Worth Jumps
It’s the middle of the month, so it’s time for me to do my net worth again. I’m not quite ready to do a compete open wallet view, but I am not as opposed to the idea as I used to be. The big news this month is that my net worth jumped 6.7%. I [...]
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Monthly Necessary Expenses
Jane Dough of Boston Gal’s Open Wallet references an article about keeping your mandatory expenses to a minimum. It seems that you should keep your ratio of take home pay to expenses under 50%. I did a look at mine and they are at 35.35%. I was helped out by splitting utilities with my fiancee [...]
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Net Worth Update – August edition
It’s a little earlier than I usually do my net worth update. After the late one last month, I figured I’d get this one out now. There’s lots of good news in the Lazy Man’s accounts this month. Last Month I was concerned that my net worth was going in the wrong direction. It’s not [...]
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Net Worth Update
For the fourth month that I’ve been keeping track, I’ve made no headway in my overall net worth. In the first month the stock market took 5% off of my retirement accounts and I have yet to recover. I continue to invest maybe a little more than I should. I take solace in that I’m [...]
