The First Ever Friday Finance Challenge

I hope to have several weekly articles on this blog and so this is the first of a (hopefully long) series of posts that will be called the Friday Finance Challenge. Every Friday I will lay out a challenge, you to the reader and myself, to take a tiny baby step towards total domination (yes, I said domination) of your finances. Rome wasn’t built in a day, as you know, and it is ridiculous to expect that you will become a personal finance expert overnight.

For our first Friday Finance Challenge, I am telling you to go out into the world and create a spreadsheet that you will be able to use as a monthly budgeting worksheet. You can find one online (if you search for personal finance worksheet in Google you will find some really good ones) or you can take the easy route and spend a whole two seconds clicking on the button in excel that creates one for you.

I plan on using the excel spreadsheet. I like the layout and it only takes like two seconds. I am all about time management people. And being as lazy as possible, you know how it goes.

So there you have it. The first ever Friday Finance Challenge, and it’s not even a hard challenge. Seriously, it will take two minutes of your time (if that) and when you’re done you can sit back and feel good about the fact that you are taking a step towards managing your financial future (doesn’t that sound grown-up?). AND, as an added bonus, you don’t even have to start using it yet … that challenge is coming later. How much easier can it get??