Setting Money Saving Goals
Have goals can be a great way to help you learn how to save money.
Unlike the kitten to the right our goals should be something that we can achive on a daily basis. Start off with something simple, like putting 5 bucks into savings a day. After going through your daily expenses it should not be too hard to find 5 dollars. Compound your daily goals into a weekly goal and then a monthly goal. When you create a weekly and monthly goal try to make them more than just the sum of the parts. So it you have a goal to save 5 dollars a day make the weekly goal 40 a month. This will force you to have to come up with 5 extra dollars for the week.
Having achievable stretch goals can give you a huge psychological boost when it comes to learning how to save money. For me setting goals and seeing that money grow has become a replacement for the desire to spend money.
If you want to think about very long term goals you can setup your retirement account and try to retire 5 years early or maybe 10. Now that seems like a goal everyone would love to achieve.