The road to debt recovery and debt relief is not always an easy one. Once you are in a hole it is always easier to keep digging into it instead of out towards debt recovery. A credit counseling specialist will tell you that working out a debt recovery plan takes time and discipline. The satisfaction is when you are debt free and you finally achieve debt relief. Debt recovery is an uphill battle but you can do it. It is possible. You can get free debt consolidation help and talk to a credit counselor about your options for debt recovery.

Work Out A Budget And Think Debt Recovery

This is a resource to help you develop a budget and hopefully get you on the road to debt recovery. Discipline, time, and determination are all keys ingredients of debt recovery.

Developing a Workable Budget

• Review your last 12 months of check registers. If you find cash withdrawals, you must record all cash transactions for the next 30 days. It is imperative that you know where ALL money goes. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Insure you can account for each of the last 12 months of deposits written in your register. If not, find out what they are. You must know all incoming monies. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Beginning at the top in the left hand column of at least a 4 column note pad, write all income source labels down the column-- i.e. INCOME: Wages, Bonuses, Other, Total Income, etc. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Below this enter the obligations found in the check registers such as: Mortgage/Rent, Food, Insurance, Utilities, Phone, etc. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Don't forget periodic expenses such as: Home or Auto Repair, Other Transportations, Entertainment, Gifts/Donations, Healthcare, Property or Other Taxes. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Leave a couple spaces labeled "Miscellaneous" and "Total Expense". Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Find the payments in the check registers for each expense. Enter the amount on your budget pad column 2. For irregular amounts take a three or more month total and divide by the total months. Think debt recovery.
• For annual or semi-annual expenses divide by 12 or 6 to get a monthly amount. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• At the top of your budget pad, label the other two columns... "Actual Expense" and "Difference". Think debt recovery.
  
  
• At the end of each month, enter the actual total for each expense. Determine the difference between budget column and actual column. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• If there is a difference either adjust the budget or determine a way to reduce this item. Think debt recovery

Motivation To Stay On A Budget

• Step 1: Write down specifically what you are trying to do and by when. It must have a concrete time frame, it must be written down, and it must be specific and realistic. For example wanting "more money " is not the same as "10% increase over last year by October first." Think debt recovery
  
  
• Step 2: What are the obstacles? What are your inadequacies? What do you need to get there that you don't already have? What is it that's blocking you? Why aren't you already there? Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Step 3: WRITE a plan to overcome EACH obstacle. List your action steps 1... 2... 3... etc. for each obstacle from above. Be as specific as possible. What will it take to get you past the obstacle that is blocking you from what you want? Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Step 4: List the benefits to you. There is no such thing as something for nothing. You must replace a thought process and resulting action with a new thought process which will produce a desired result. There must be a benefit derived of sufficient value and meaning to you alone to be worth the effort necessary to do this and to overcome the resistance to change. Think debt recovery.
  
  
• Step 5: Is it worth it? This question must be answered very carefully and honestly. If the answer is yes, do it and DO IT NOW! However, if the answer is no, if the benefit derived cannot muster the desire to overcome the obstacle, you have three choices:
  1. Change the goal thereby reducing the obstacle;
  2. and/or increase the benefit to make it more meaningful.
  3. Drop the entire issue and get on with your life without feeling guilty.
     
     
• Bonus Step: If you really want to stay motivated you will have to reinforce your efforts through affirmations or self talk. In a few places around the house, place a simple statement of what you are trying to do and repeat the statement as often as possible. The more often you do it the faster the process.

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