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The Best of the Crown Money Map and Dave Ramsey Baby Steps

I recently wrote a series about the Baby Steps and Money Map which walked through the phases in each of these great financial plans for living debt free and experiencing financial freedom. Both plans provide great financial guidance.  I’ve been doing some thinking lately about highlighting the best of both (and some of my own ideas) and bringing [...]

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Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map Round Up

Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map Round Up

Do you like the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals. If you’re just joining, this is article #7, the round up article.  It is the last in a series about The Baby Steps [...]

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Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map – Post #6

Do you like the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals. If you’re just joining, this is article #6 in a series about The Baby Steps and Money Map.  I invite you to follow [...]

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Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map – Post #5

Do you like the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals. If you’re just joining, this is article #5 in a series about The Baby Steps and Money Map. I invite you to [...]

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Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map – Post #4

Do you like the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals. If you’re just joining, this is article #4 in a series about The Baby Steps and Money Map. I invite you to [...]

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Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map – Post #2

Do you like the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals. If you’re just joining, this is article #2 in a series about The Baby Steps and Money Map.  I invite you to follow along [...]

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Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map Series

Dave Ramsey Baby Steps and Crown Money Map Series

Do you like the Dave Ramsey Baby Steps or the Crown Money Map?  Dave Ramsey created the Baby Steps and Crown Financial Ministries created the Money Map for prioritizing and setting financial goals.  Both are widely used resources to help people shift from diluted efforts in achieving objectives to narrowing the focus on the most important [...]

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Money Management Principles

Here are seven principles or guidelines to consider when it comes to managing your finances wisely and solving money problems.  Some of these have surfaced from my budget coaching experience and others from my own quest to live financially free. Manage your finances wisely 1.  The Bible is the best resource for guidance in managing [...]

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Live Debt Free – Help Your Children

If you’re just joining, I’m writing a 5 article series entitled, Live Debt Free.  This is the fourth article out of four in which I discuss the four reasons why our family is pursing the debt free goal (including our house).  I plan to end the series with a fifth article that will include some practical tools to help in [...]

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Baby Step 3: 3- 6 Months Expenses in Savings

How much emergency savings should you have? How do you know whether to lean more towards the lower side (3 months savings) versus the higher side (6 months savings) of the emergency savings fund? Dave Ramsey says this is a negotiation between husband and spouse. One person is typically the spender and one person is [...]

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Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps

Dave Ramsey’s Baby steps are a great practical tool to help tackle financial goals in the right order or priority. Speaking from past experience, it’s easy to dilute your efforts by trying to make debt payments, save for children’s college, contribute to retirement, build an emergency savings plan, tithe and more, all at the same time. [...]

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