What?? No progress? Looking at my balance sheet you will see absolutely ZERO progress from my April balances. Uh oh. So what happened? Well…you remember when banks got in trouble for having their 0ff-balance-sheet debt? Well, I just did the same thing!! And I got the same result. It made my previous numbers look better than they were, but now they’ve caught up with me and it makes my current numbers look bad when compared to my prior numbers. This debt is actually some personal and businesses taxes that I owe to the state. I paid off $2k and I have another $2k to pay off in the next couple of weeks once I have the cash. This will impede my progress toward being debt free by 2012, but I am still well on track to be debt free sometime during 2012.
This does mark the halfway point of the year. In the first half of 2011 my net worth increased by $14k and my student loan decreased by about $12k. I still have a long way to go to reach my goals, but even with this tax setback, I’m making great progress.
I know it might seem like you didn’t make progress, but don’t let that get you down man. You’ve been doing a good job at improving your life. Keep it up.
You can only fool yourself for a short period of time, right!? Don’t get discouraged though, my June numbers also sucked… When you look at the big picture, as you say, you made great progress.
Still, you did a great job for your work and thanks for the well-done post!!!
Hi Will,
Self improvement can be a great part in terms of success….Keep up the good work….
Yet another incredibly insightful entry. If you could please update us about this story, that would be wonderful.
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I know that you think that you didn’t make progress, don’t let you pull down by your wrong thinking..Keep it up, do you have what to do to make you progress…
Never giveup maybe on the next update there will be much progress for that…Just keep up the good work always!!
There is always a chance for every failure we have…
This is helpful for all of us then…