Quotes About Planning

Baby Steps: Step 1: $1,000 in an emergency fund. Step 2: Pay off all debt except the house utilizing the debt snowball. Step 3: Three to six months of savings in a fully-funded emergency fund. Step 4: Invest 15% of your household income into Roth IRAs and pre-tax retirement plans. Step 5: College Funding (i.e. 529 plan). Step 6: Pay off your home early. Step 7: Build wealth and give.

Zig Ziglar says, "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time." I love how Zig cuts right to the heart of the matter. If you don't have a target, if you don't have a goal in mind, then you'll never get where you want to go. Most people take a "Ready-Fire-Aim" approach to budgeting. They get the money, spend the money, and then wonder why they don't have any money. It's crazy!

A budget is just telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went.

Remember, whether you are fourteen or fifty-four, a budget represents intentional living.

Retirement in America has come to mean "save enough money so I can quit the job I hate.

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Wealth-building is a crockpot, not a microwave.

A budget is people telling their money where to go instead of wondering where it went." You

Un presupuesto es cuando la gente dice a su dinero dónde ir, en lugar de averiguar adónde fue».

If she were to invest $3,500 in a mutual fund averaging 12 percent, upon an average death age of seventy-eight, Sara's mutual fund would be worth $368,500!

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

A budget is people telling their money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.// Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. —George S. Patton

Yogi Berra, the fabled Yankee baseball player and manager, was said to have pointed out, "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." That is so true about brands; you need to know where they are to end up.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

when she contemplated the world situation she was aware that her mind would expand and become vast in three dimensions, and she could think years ahead, contemplating hundreds of moves as though she were observing a gigantic, global chessboard. When she planned, she planned sometimes decades in advance.

I'd rather have one concrete plan and refine it by running through it over and over than try to have multiple plans and run the risk of confusing parts of them when it comes down to the wire.

A latte a day keeps retirement away

In fact, studies show that less than 1 percent of Americans write down specific goals for themselves each year. That's a shame, because writing down your goals is powerful.

keep your nest egg growing faster than inflation isn't all that hard.