Carnival of Financial Goals – Music Edition!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 0:01 - By The David

Posted in category goals, hosting carnivals, link carnivals

Welcome to the Carnival of Financial Goals. I chose music for the theme because it’s a great source of motivation for me. It helps me focus when there are distractions, and it drives me when I need a little more ”ummph” to accomplish a hard task.

There were more than 100 submissions this month, but unfornately, they couldn’t all make it. It was hard, but I narrowed it down to a more readable number.

Withour further ado, here is the Carnival of Financial Goals – Music Edition. I hope you enjoy these entries as much as I did.

Editor’s Picks

Rising up, straight to the top.
Have the guts, got the glory.
Went the distance, now I’m not gonna stop.
Just a man and his will to survive.

- Survivor, “Eye of the Tiger”

nickel presents Financial Goals for 2008: Reviewing Our Progress posted at fivecentnickel.com.

David presents Start The New Year Off Right With Some Budgeting Tips. posted at My Two Dollars.

MoneyNing presents How to Brighten the Path to Prosperity Even in a Dark Tunnel posted at Money Ning.

FIRE Getters presents A Simple Budget That Works? posted at FIRE Finance.

Shaun Connell presents How to Write a Financial Plan posted at Financial Planning.

The Investor presents The really obvious thing we all forget when borrowing money posted at Monevator.com.

Motivation / Point of View

Are you going to live your life standing in the back, looking around?
Are you gonna waste your time? Gotta make a move, or you’ll miss out.

- Jimmy Eat World, “A Praise Chorus”

Dorian Wales presents Success: Who Dares Wins? posted at The Personal Financier.

Broderick Allen presents Persistence posted at Broderick Allen – Personal Growth and Enjoying Life’s Journey.

ChristianPF presents How to create lifelong memories posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog.

Debt Reduction

It don’t take money, and it don’t take fame. Don’t need no credit card to ride on this train.

- Huey Lewis and the News, “The Power of Love”

Whapibak presents Financial Freedom Phase One: Tackle Irresponsibility posted at Second Child, Last Born.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Debt Elimination Tips: How To Reduce Debt With These Dos and Don’ts posted at The Digerati Life.

Budgeting

I may not have a lot to give, but what I got I’ll give to you.
I don’t care too much for money, money can’t but me love.

- The Beatles, “Can’t Buy Me Love”

Tristan presents Managing Monthly Outgoings And Household Budgeting posted at Find Financial Freedom.

Raj Patel presents Build a Rough and Quick Budget in Minutes posted at DebtGoal.

Career

I went downtown to look for a job.
I had no training, no experience to speak of.
I looked at the holes in my jeans, and turned and headed back.

- Social Distortion, “Story of My Life”

Lazy Man and Money presents How Worried Are You About Being Laid-Off? posted at Lazy Man and Money.

Jim presents Three Morale-Boosting Tips for Job Seekers posted at Bargaineering.

Resolutions

Say it’s true, it’s true…
And we can break through.

- U2, “New Year’s Day”

Patrick presents 2009 Personal Finance Goals – Back to the Essentials posted at Cash Money Life.

Madison presents New Year’s Resolution: Organization and Execution posted at My Dollar Plan.

Fathersez presents My goals for 2009 posted at Father Sez.

Steward presents 2009 Family Financial Goals posted at My Family’s Money.

Goal Setting

Were you born to resist, or be abused?
I swear I’ll never give in, I refuse.

- Foo Fighters, “Best of You”

Andy presents Setting Effective Goals Using Indicators of Performance posted at Saving to Invest.

Finance Fanatic presents How To Set Effective Goals – S.M.A.R.T. Goals posted at Planning Financials | Personal Finance For You.

SingleGuyMoney presents December Savings Challenge Update posted at Single Guy Money.

RC presents Tips for Making Your Personal Finance Resolutions Stick- Turn Your Resolutions into Habits posted at Think Your Way to Wealth.

Net Worth

If I had a million dollars, well I’d buy you an exotic pet.
Yep, like a llama. Or an Emu.

- Bare Naked Ladies, “If I had a Million Dollars”

FMF presents 2008 Net Worth Review: Ouch! posted at Free Money Finance.

Kat presents Annual $$ Check-up posted at the part-time life.

That concludes this special music edition of the carnival. Thanks for reading!

You can submit your entry to the next edition of Carnival of Financial Goals using the carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found at the blog carnival index page.

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jajar

Thanks, that was a very interesting read. The history behind the facts…

The David

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Can I ask what you mean about the history behind the facts?

Anonymous

Very disappointed on the degraded quality of the carnival. There are three posts which have been published in at least two other carnivals.

as example: how to brighten...
http://dividendtree.blogspot.com/2009/02/carniv...

Why are there so many post not related to financial goal settings? If you want to include any article, then make is a personal summary or weekly links, why put it under carnivals....

Is there a buddy system going on here ?

The David

I'm sorry that you're so unhappy with the carnival.

I'll respond to your grievances:

- I had a little more than 48 hours to review more than 100 submissions. I tried my best to compile an entertaining, on topic carnival.
- There is no buddy system, I can assure you. I had never seen most of these sites before, and I guarantee you that even fewer of them have ever heard of me.
- I am sorry that submitters did not follow the rules, and submitted posts to multiple carnivals. I did reject the ones that I knew were duplicates (at least 5-10). However, I do not have the time to check every carnival from the past month to make sure that none of the articles were duplicated. That would mean I would have to check at least 28 different editions of carnivals, with anywhere from 25-50 posts each. There's just not enough time to do that, especially when I only had 48 hours to do this.
- I included some articles that were not specifically about a goal, because they gave tips on how to achieve goals of mine (such as reducing debt or setting a budget). This seemed to fit under the carnival's rule that posts include "general tips on achieving or setting goals" (exact quote from the submission rules). Had I not included some general posts, there only would have been 10-15 posts, nearly all on New Year's resolutions. Again, this can also be blamed on the short amount of time I had.
- I think it's rude to criticize me anonymously. It would be one thing if you were disagreeing with something I said, but you're just bashing me for doing something that arguably helps out other people more than myself.
- If you're so disappointed with the quality of the carnival, I suggest that you host it. Don't just complain, do something about it.

I appreciate your feedback, though I wish it would have been more constructive, and not as accusatory.

Anonymous

David,

My intent was not accusatory; when i posted the response my purpose of was questionnaire. It came out in a wrong way, so please accept my sincere apologies.

I am researcher and currently looking at "impact of such blog carnivals" on web traffic, e commerce, and pseudo methods of traffic generation. How to count multiple pseudo link generations as one. The end result of this is to feedback issues to be captured in web traffic analysis algorithms.

I do not maintain any blog and do not intend to in future. While the intent of blog carnivals is great, lately, it has lost the purpose.

I did not intend to undermine your efforts in hosting it. I just questioned the quality and purpose of the carnival. once again my apologizes for unintentionally offending you.

The David

I believe I owe you an apology as well. I'll admit that my response was a bit of a knee jerk reaction.

After hearing you explain yourself, your comment makes much more sense.

Your research sounds very intriguing. I'd be interested to hear what conclusion you come up with, because regardless of it was intentional or not, I fell victim to some of the issues that come up in carnivals.

Thanks for your feedback and explanation...I really do appreciate it.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions as to how I could make future carnivals more useful for readers , submitters and myself. Next time I'll try to look around other carnivals more for duplicate stories.

Anonymous

David:

I will surely commend your honesty and integrity for non-moderated flow of comments on your blog. I hope you do not remove this in future.

Majority of the bloggers just moderate such comments and do not let it post on their blogs. It demonstrates their ulterior motives behind it.

The David

Thank you very much!

I plan on keeping it that way. The only filtering that takes place now is done automatically to prevent spam, but other than that, anything goes.

I welcome criticism and complaints. I'm doing this to learn and get better at it, so it's inevitable I'll make mistakes along the way. I'd like to know about it when I do.

Plus I want to encourage debate and conversation...not restrict it. And from a logicstical point of view, it makes things easier not to moderate, and it allows comments to go up immediately.

Thanks for the compliment.

fathersez

Hi, David,

Thanks for hosting and thank you for including my post.

Best regards

The David

Hi fathersez,

Thanks! It was my pleasure. I got to read some interesting posts, and discovered some sites I had never heard of (such as yours).

Thanks for the comment!

Patrick

Thanks for hosting! :)

The David

My pleasure. It realy helps me expand my normal reading repertoire.

FIRE Finance

Thanks for hosting and choosing us as Editor's Pick! We are really honored :).
Keep up the excellent blogging.
Cheers,
FIRE Finance

The David

I'm glad you feel honored. I take that as a compliment as well :)

I liked that your post outlined different budgeting options, especially because Excel was the first one listed. I toy around with mint and Quicken sometimes, but Excel is still my go-to.

W.

Hi David.

Thanks for hosting the carnival this week and for including my post. I'llbe linking back soon. I"m looking forward to reading all the submissions.

The David

Hi W.,

Thanks for submitting. I had never heard of your site before, so it's cool to check out something new.

Thanks for linking back already, and for the comment!

David

Thanks so much for making my post an Editor's Pick!

The David

My pleasure. At least three of my friends - as well as myself - made finances their main goal this year, so you had me hooked with the first line.

Thanks for the comment!

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