My Financial Journey

Well you might have noticed I put a little progress bar on the right hand side of my blog to track my goal of having $100,000 put away in retirement accounts by the time I reach age 30. Well by putting that stupid little chart over on the side of my blog really got me to thinking about this goal, more as in – can I actually achieve that goal. Up till this point I just thought it would be a nice goal to achieve but by having it staring me in the face every time I look at my blog it makes me wonder if I’m going to make a fool out of myself by trying to achieve what appears to be a lofty goal.

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Well I have been thinking a lot about some of the financial goals for myself and I think I will just list them all here and decide which one’s to fine tune and set for myself on this blog.

Accumulate $100,000 in retirement savings by the time I am 30 years old
I like this goal because one it is a nice BIG round number that would give me a sense of pride and accomplishment.

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Well I suppose seeing as how the title of this blog is “My Financial Goals” – I suppose I should actually talk about what my goals are. Now despite the blog title I really have not been a big proponent of setting goals for myself. I know I subconsciously have ideas of what I would like to accomplish in my life, I have never before actually defined a goal and written it down somewhere. In the past I have always been pretty good about accomplishing my secret subconscious “goals”, but who knows maybe I just forgot about the goals I had failed to attain. So at this point in time I am going to dig into my subconsciousness and put some of these goals I have for myself out on paper…err well electronic storage. …

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