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CHAPTER 1
Implementing Your Budget
In the Family Financial Training Course Volume 2, Creating Your Budget, you spent some time learning to evaluate your current spending, establish your monthly expenses, and determine the changes you must make in your spending so you can stick to your budget. You learned the steps you must take
to become someone who is in control of your finances and who can account for your money. You learned how to plan ahead for needed cash and how to reserve money for foreseen and unforeseen circumstances; and how to organize your finances in much the same way that businesses do their financial planning. You learned that a budget doesn’t mean you have to stop doing the things you like to do forever. It might for a little while, but as you manage your money better, you find you have more money available to do the things you want.
In this volume, we will expand on what you have learned by helping you assess the budget information you accumulated in Volume 2 and deciding whether or not adjustments must be made going forward so you can accomplish your financial goals. You will get a
Money behaves and responds just like a person—nurture it, treat it well, and it will grow and flourish; treat it carelessly, or with disrespect, and it will dwindle away to nothing. Quite simply, if you respect money and give it the attention it needs, it will respect you back.
—Suze Orman
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