Posts by Matt Ramey
Week 8 – Build Your Motivation
Week 8: Build Your Motivation In the previous weeks, you were asked to lay out the reasons why Financial Freedom is so important to you as well as what your vision of being Financially Free really looked like. In this week’s lesson, the goal is to build our motivation towards change. While you likely are…
Read MoreWeek 7 – Set Up a Plan to Monitor Your Progress
Welcome to Week 7 – Set Up a Plan to Monitor Your Progress. This week will be the final installment in our goal planning process of our 52 Week Financial Freedom plan. This is because setting up our goals is only half of the journey; we need to ensure that we set up a plan…
Read MoreWeek 6 – Develop a Realistic Schedule Towards Goal Achievement
Welcome to Week 6 – Developing a Realistic Schedule Towards Goal Achievement. This is part of our 52 Week Financial Freedom series, where we are teaching you the path towards Financial Freedom. We’re towards the end of our first few week’s worth of lessons which are all about setting S.M.A.R.T. goals with a great plan…
Read MoreWeek 5 – Develop Your Financial Freedom Goals & Systems
Here in week 5, we’ll begin setting the Financial Freedom goals for ourselves. If you have completed the lessons in the previous weeks, identifying our goals should be relatively easy and straightforward. This is because by developing what we truly desire and want (aka our Life Vision), our goals become readily apparent. This article is…
Read MoreWeek 4 – Determine your Financial Freedom Vision
Welcome to Week 4 – Determine Your Financial Freedom Vision! In this post, we discuss everything needed to bring the lessons from weeks 1-3 together and continue on your Financial Freedom Journey. If you haven’t yet completed the previous week’s lessons, I’d encourage you to go back through and do so now. Building our foundation…
Read MoreWeek 3 – Commit to Change: What Are You Willing to Do?
Welcome to Week 3 in our Financial Freedom Journey Series! Our goal with the series is to take you through the steps needed to become financially free. It is our goal to help you figure out the path towards becoming free so that you can enjoy your best life. In this week’s lesson, you are…
Read MoreWeek 2 – Rank Your “Whats” in Order of Desire & Importance
Welcome to Week 2 of our 52 Week Financial Freedom Journey educational series! It is our hope that by engaging in this course, you will be well on your way towards Financial Freedom. Each week we’ll bring you a new post in a (somewhat) structured order which is designed to help you achieve your financial…
Read MoreA Dividend Cut was Announced: What Should I Do?
A dividend cut was announced: what should I do!?! As an investor, one of the things we never want to see is deterioration in the companies we own, especially a dividend cut. Should you take this as an immediate sell indicator, or is there more to the story? Read on to get my take. The…
Read MoreThe 5 Principles of the Formula for Savings
The 5 Principles of the Formula for Savings Before reading this article on the Formula for Savings, take a moment and ask yourself the following questions: What are you saving for? Do you have an emergency fund? If so, how much do you have set aside in your emergency fund? Are you living paycheck-to-paycheck or…
Read MoreWeek 1 – Achieving Financial Freedom: What Do You Really Want?
This post, Achieving Financial Freedom: What Do You Really Want? is the first post in our 52-week series on how to achieve Financial Freedom. We’re writing the rest of the posts as we speak, so stay tuned! Be sure to subscribe to Live Free and Div Hard for the latest updates! Achieving Financial Freedom: What…
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