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To gain financial freedom you must take control of your money, plan for the future and Stop Borrowing Money!
Two families striving to gain financial freedom share their experiences.
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Time Management
One of my goals for this year was to become more organized. I think time management is just as, if not more, important as money management. If you don’t organize your time then you are wasting time you could be spending on more productive things. For example, I am constantly searching for my car keys. The pattern usually goes like this. I am frantically trying to get my self, the kids and everything ready before we leave the house. I finally get everything ready and then I discover the keys are missing. “Who moved my keys?â€, I yell. It is only later that I discover that I was the careless one and never put them in a good place to begin with.
So as part of my time management goal this year I have decided to hang my keys up on a screw I screwed into the wall by the door. I also have my purse (another mysteriously perpetually missing item of mine) hanging one this screw. I did think about doing this long ago but the perfectionist (deep down within) in my said “You can’t just put a screw in the walll. That wouldn’t be prettyâ€. I decided to ignore that voice and to be practical. I don’t have the time and maybe not even the money to find that perfect wall hook anyway. What I really need right now is to be able to find my purse and keys when I need to leave the house. I must have wasted hours last year looking for my keys and purse.
Since I am not naturally organized this as been a bit of a challenged for me. I have to constantly remind myself to put the keys and purse on the hook. I am reading a book called, Living Organized by Sandra Felton and one of my biggest challenges seems to be not loosing the book. Sandra even mentioned in the first chapter that it is important not to loose the book. I laughed when I read this because I knew I was going to have a problem keeping track of the book. I am learning a lot from this book and my hope is I can actually become a little more organized this year.
One thing I have changed about my daily schedule is to limit my time working online until after 5pm. When I am on the internet I often shut everything out and focus on my online work. This was affecting my family and household chores so I decided I need to consider home schooling the kids, housework and driving the kids to their classes as part of my “day jobâ€. Even though my mother chores do go past I decided that I wouldn’t do any online work before this time. So far it is working much better and I think the family is happier. I do get tempted to get online but I have to suppress those urges 
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