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30 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Make 2024 Healthier, Happier & More Secure

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Empower yourself to live debt-free by paying down high-interest debts such as credit cards. Improve your credit score. Doing small things like paying bills on time and making multiple credit card payments each month (if you’re able) can boost your credit score and improve future financial benefits.

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Lessons From Past Recessions

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How much debt do I have (credit cards, student loans, car loans, mortgages, etc.)? Although it’s an extra challenge, and both may take more time, wiping out as much of your credit card or auto loan debt as possible while building a savings account can help you avoid going further into debt if layoffs become more frequent.

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16 Rich Habits

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Stay away from accumulating credit card debt. Instead, these successful people use their free time engaged in personal development, networking, volunteering, working side jobs or side businesses , or pursuing some goal that will lead to rewards down the road. Network and volunteer regularly. Get a mentor.

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Wellness Entrepreneur Kris Carr Believes Finding Success Begins with Self-Awareness

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“We were told that it wasn’t going to work, and we couldn’t call it that [ Crazy Sexy Cancer ], but I kept whipping out my credit card and saying, ‘Well, I’m going to make this thing because I believe in it, and I don’t care if I’m the only one who watches it.”

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Find a mentor. Refresh your network. Pull up those numbers and refresh your network! Now is the perfect time to check in and keep your network working for you. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Cut up credit cards. Take stock and charge forward. Are any of those battles worth continuing?

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

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There is an escape from the Money Panic, and it doesn’t involve selling off retirement investments or increasing your credit card limit. It can act as a check on your flawed assumptions, a motivator to work harder or a prod to reach out to mentors and allies for advice. Secure a “consulting” gig.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

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I tried selling credit card machines door to door once. Now I coach startup entrepreneurs and get to see my students make their first sales, grow , and start mentoring other entrepreneurs. Back in the days when I bought into the hyperbole of The Hustle™, I went to a lot of networking meetups. We go wide, not deep.

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