How do you keep focused and motivated for your long term financial goals?

[Livinthedream]

I have decided to do it 1 debt at a time.
Pay the minimum on them all, and put any extra on that one debt.
Currently, we are working on my car.
I prob makes more sense to spread the extra over all of them, but the rewards are so small then. I need more short term goals than long term gain KWIM?

[Nai]

It's hard to keep focus but I think or person has to be tough and be the controller to make sure things don't go off track. once you do it for a while you get used to it and it becomes easier.

[chody47]

I keep focussed purely by setting yearly goals and then checking each month how close to them I am. I decided that last year I wanted to get debt down to x amount. We made it and I've sry a slightly bigger goal this year (figured I wouldn't need to pay extra and that the reduced interest should do it for us). I always put our tax refund into our debt - it's nice to are a larger chunk of debt disappear one month.