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529: Plan Your Money Goals Backwards by Kristin Wong

Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Kristin Wong shares a different approach to achieving money goals, backed by research. Episode 529: Plan Your Money Goals Backwards by Kristin Wong (Money Problems & Patience). Kristin Wong is a freelance writer and journalist who writes for Lifehacker, Mentalfloss, and New York Magazine. She frequently covers travel, personal finance, and human behavior. Kristin launched her own blog, www.thewildwong.com, to write about life as a work-from-anywhere freelancer. She aims to help other creative entrepreneurs navigate the tricky world of freelancing, from managing money to traveling the world to staying productive and getting stuff done. Kristin is a self-professed money geek and is slated to publish a book about personal finance in March of 2018. The original post is located here: https://www.thewildwong.com/plan-money-goals-backwards Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Opt finance daily.

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Episode 529, plan your money goals backwards.

0:36.6

By Kristen Wong of the Wild Wong.

0:39.4

And I'm Dan, your host and narrator bringing you each day some of the best blogs on personal finance.

0:45.3

And before we get to today's post from Kristen, if you want to connect with a bunch of like-minded

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But for now let's get to today's post and start optimizing your life.

1:05.0

Plan your money goals backwards by Kristen Wong of the Wild Wong.com.

1:15.0

Is it just me or did it take longer to get places as a kid than it does as an adult?

1:20.0

Actually, I know it's not just me because are we there yet?

1:23.0

Is a question that kids love to annoy you with.

1:26.0

When I was six years old, we would cram into my mom's car

1:29.0

and drive all the way across town to my aunt's house for what seemed like hours and I would complain to my mom about

1:34.1

how bored I was the entire way. Sorry mom. It was a long exhausting trek.

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