Set yourself up for success in 2012. Here, part two of the DailyWorth Ready-Set-Go! Guide for your money.Great! You’ve given your finances the “Back to the Future” treatment. The next step to get ahead for 2012?
Set priorities and anticipate liabilities. Here’s how:
- Admit the obvious. There’s no point in being blindsided by expenses you can anticipate now, whether it’s attending a wedding, paying your taxes or planning (now!) for the inevitable Camp Gap.
- Put money down. You can’t set aside cash for everything coming up, but you can mark them on your calendar or open a small side savings account.
- Be selfish. Last week readers offered a lot of good advice, but our favorite was this: Take care of yourself.
That means looking ahead to 2012 and saying, “I’m going to make this a safer year, a year where I can sleep better, knowing I’ve saved a bit on the side to cover what I can’t see coming.”
Get going. What groundwork are you going to lay for 2012, right now?
