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How To Free-Up 10% to 15% of Your Income
By: Michael G. Peterson

Would you be interested in freeing up 10% to 15% of your current income? Just imagine what you could do with this money. You could pay down your debts, increase your savings, or work toward that next important purchase that you have in mind. Wouldnï¿½t it be exciting to actually have money left over at the end of the month?

I know what you are thinking: ï¿½That would be nice, but not if I have to budget every dollarï¿½. What if I told you it could be done without budgeting? What if you could accomplish this in a weekï¿½s time without too much effort? Would you take a few steps in order to improve your finances?

If you answered ï¿½yesï¿½, letï¿½s go through the simple steps required to make this possible.

Step #1: For a total of 7 days we need to track every single expense. This includes credit card, check, and cash purchases. For this program to really work you will have to track everything (even pocket change). The easiest way I have found to accomplish this is to use a blank check register and write down every transaction that you make for the next 7 days. And I mean every expense, even if you give your child a quarter for a gumball, track that expense. We need to collect the date the purchase was made, and the item that was purchased (this part of the exercise is actually most of the work, and really isnï¿½t all that time consuming ï¿½ especially when we keep in mind the possible benefits).

Step #2: Once we have tracked every expense for the last 7 days, we then need to go through each of those expenses and evaluate them. What we are looking for is which expenses fall into the ï¿½wantsï¿½ category, and which expenses fall into the ï¿½needsï¿½ category. As you try to identify these, let me give you some coachingï¿½ Is that Diet Coke habit every morning really a ï¿½needï¿½, or is it actually a ï¿½wantï¿½ that could be cut back in order to improve not only your finances, but also your health? The idea is not to identify how many things that you enjoy that will need to be sacrificed, but to identify the items that you really could do without ï¿½ and not sufferï¿½

Once you have identified the ï¿½wantsï¿½ that you donï¿½t really ï¿½needï¿½ in order to be happy, add these expenses up for the week. If you are the typical American you will find that these unnecessary ï¿½wantsï¿½ will add up to approximately 10% to 15% of your take home income. In fact most people who do this program, are shocked to find that they really do waste a lot of money on things that they had no idea would affect their finances so dramatically.

Step #3: Commit to saving. This is probably the hardest part of the program, and within reason you have the freedom to choose your ï¿½wantsï¿½ for the day or to choose your ï¿½needsï¿½. Now I know that some days that ï¿½Diet Cokeï¿½ (or fill in your own vice here____) is an absolute ï¿½needï¿½. When you are having that kind of day, go ahead and reward yourself for being so good the rest of the week. But make sure that you keep your objectives in mind for the long run and commit to saving that money for the next day.

Now before you give up on putting these steps into place, lets realize the fact that the benefits of this program really do add up. In fact the average American making the average wages will find that they are able to free up $200 to $300 each month. You are probably thinking ï¿½sure, but that wonï¿½t work for meï¿½. In all of our experience in teaching this program we have not yet (knock on wood) found anyone that was not able to identify and free-up a portion of their take home income.

This newfound savings can go a long way in making your financial picture much brighter. It can help you extinguish debt in a fraction of the time, put money away for a better retirement, and get you out of the month to month budget crunch that so many of us deal with all of our lives.

And remember this: If you save only $1 per day and invest it at 10% interest ï¿½ in 56 years it will grow to $1 million. Every dollar counts. Make sure you get the most value out of every dollar you earn, by focusing on your financial goals instead of the wasted ï¿½wantsï¿½ of life that put most of us in financial bondage.

About the author:
½ 2005 DebtGuru.comï¿½. Michael G. Peterson is the Vice President of American Credit Foundation, an IRS 501 (c)(3) non-profit consumer credit counseling organization that has assisted thousands of individuals and families with their financial situations through seminars, education, counseling services, and, debt management plans. For more information, and free consumer resources visit http://www.debtguru.com

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