Aannddd reality check for these 2016 financial goals too!
Statuses:
- Completed! – as in done/finished
- On track – met based on budget file
- Not yet started – not yet started based on target start date on budget file
- Quite – met but budget not followed (lesser than what was in my budget file)
- Not met – target not met based on budget file
- Religiously pay SK-LU. 5 months to go! Excited to mark this as completed!
- Mid: Completed! – Last payment made this month! Ahhhhh, so happy happy!
- End: N/A
- Save 50k for processing of papers for SK-LU. After completing the payment in June, I’ll have the same budget reallocated to this.
- Mid: Not yet started
- End: Quite – Just need to save 35K as confirmed by agent. 85% completed.
- Religiously pay SK-Silang. 2 years to go.
- Mid: On track – many more months to go :p
- End: Completed! – for all payments for 2016. 1 year to go!!!!
- Save 50k for lot processing of SK-Bgo.
- Mid: Quite – too many reallocations
- End: Not met – saved amount will be used for the completion of the SK.
- Save 35k for CR of SK-Bgo
- Mid: Quite – too many reallocations
- End: Quite – the saved amount will not be for the CR yet.
- Increase EIP allocation to 3k/month
- Mid: On track – started March 2016
- End: On track
- Increase MF to 20k (carry over from previous years)
- Mid: Quite – still catching up with the savings but haven’t made any deposits to FAMI yet
- End: Not met – Reallocated budget for nieces, plus, I’ll stop my FAMI contributions for now.
- Add 20k-30k to COL
- Mid: On track
- End: Quite – 2K deficit to 20K. Was not able to increase this but I opened another investment account instead.
- Save 80k for Project BD (new in my budget file)
- Mid: On track
- End: Completed! – and even exceeded by a few thousands hehehe
- Religiously save 3k/month for niece’s tuition
- Mid: On track – I can’t wait for her to graduate hahaha!
- End: On track – Crossing my fingers that she’ll finish her studies on time.
- Set aside a Tulong fund
- Mid: Quite – too many reallocations
- End: Not met – I decided in the end to not allocate for this on a regular basis due to other allocations. I just check which ones to sacrifice if I need to shell out for items not in my budget.
- Continue saving for an international travel
- Mid: On track
- End: On track – used the rest for my Japan trip last July 2016 but I still continue to save as often as I can.
- Set aside 10k for December 2016
- Mid: Quite – too many reallocations
- End: Completed! – met this, and allocated some more, hence the Tagaytay trip
Summary:
7/13 – On track/Completed
3/13 – Not met
3/13 – Quite
Ok, happy to see that I was able to meet most of my financial goals. Those that were not met were because I had to re-prioritize and reallocate them to other things.
Praying for wisdom to better manage my financial blessings in 2017.
Congrats naman, Mylene!!! You deserve a pat on the back! Hope this 2017 brings us even more financial blessings! 🙂
Thanks, Edel! Yes. Cheers to more financial blessings this year. I-claim na natin hihihi!