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The Plan

THE PLAN

 

 

I have spent ages churning figures and running spreadsheets coming up with and rejecting financial plans that just didn’t feel right, scared me or left me reaching for a stiff drink.

Should I take my target total (£125,000) and divide it by how many months I have to achieve it?  (36 months)

…………………..  that is £3472 per month  Which is actually a whole £2592 more that I have in income – pretty demoralising to start off “failing” and then playing catch-up. SO STOP!!!!!

Should I set a goal that increases by 1% every month that gets me my goal in 36 months

…………………….trouble is that even that means I am starting in month one trying to generate £2900 – !!!!

So in the end I have decided to chunk the mortgage down into 100 pots of £1250 and I shall concentrate on clearing each 1% chunk of the mortgage at a time.

Each of these 100 pots will be saved by setting up little games/ challenges doing lots of different things – some of which will be one-offs, some of which can be run again and again.

To make it seem even less intimidating I have set my target for year one as being 15 of these pots, with 35 in year two and 50 in year three ……………. slowly building up the income as I bring more ideas into play.

At least …………….. that’s the plan for just now, it may just have to change as we go along.

 

Elaine Colliar

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