Comments on: Making incremental progress feel motivating

By: bluntmoney

bluntmoney — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:26:15 +0000

fern, I bet it will feel good to get that mortgage paid off.

By: fern

fern — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:16:24 +0000

hmmm. i could make a chain up to represent my mortgage payments. If i keep up with my hefty prepayments, i’ll have the thing paid off in 6 more years….that’s a 72-link chain. could be fun to cut one link off with each mortgage payment

By: bluntmoney

bluntmoney — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:50:00 +0000

Nicole, you’re making great progress! (And I do the same thing when I look at my chart.)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:43:25 +0000

Thank you for posting about this! I made a chart at NCN back in January, because if I just looked at the total amount of debt remaining I would feel like I was making no progress. However, right now I can say, “Wow, I’ve paid off THIRTEEN PERCENT of my debt in 7 months!” That’s better than two months ago, when it was only 10 percent, and much better than January, when it was zero. Instead of thinking “I still have 50k to go”, I think about the progress that I’ve already made, and it inspires me to keep going. I think of how good it will feel when 20% is gone, then 50%, then all of it.