financial

This is a free form exercise. For the next three minutes (*just 3 minutes!*), write about your financial goals. Below are some questions to help you get started:

• how much money would you like to bring home per month?
  
  
• how much money would you like to save each year?
  
  
• if you don't think a lot about money, instead write about your financial goals in terms of your needs and desires. For example, you might write that you want to have enough money to pay your rent without stress, buy or lease a new car every four years, save enough money to be able to pay for your child's college education, etc.
  
  
• Who could you hire to help you learn more about your money, and to make sure your bills are paid on time and some of your goals are met?
  
  
• how much would you like to give to charity and tithing each year?
  
  
• When do you want to retire? what year? What does retirement mean to you?
  
  
• Do you feel guilty that you don't know enough about money? Would you prefer to learn more about money, or hire someone to handle things for you so that you can just oversee that work?
  
  
• I learned that I could make more money working than I could doing certain things in my life that I didn't like doing; monthly bookkeeping, housework, etc. Are there areas in your life in which that may be true for you?
  
  
• Create a checklist of things that worry you about money, monthly, quarterly, and yearly bills that need to be paid, and things you would like to afford (cars, insurance, education fund, etc.) and decide whether making an appointment for a consultation to help with these matters would be helpful to you.
  
  
• If you feel stress about money, what could you do right now to help yourself in more control?
  
  
• If you have bad money habits, when did they begin? Did your parents or other influential people in your early life have money issues that you have adopted? Write a list of your negative and positive beliefs about money, your ability to handle money, and brainstorm a list for improving your financial prowess.
  

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