{"id":773,"date":"2025-05-02T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidjamesgarber.com\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:20:28","slug":"how-my-life-plans-have-changed-in-the-last-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidjamesgarber.com\/blog\/archives\/773","title":{"rendered":"How My Life Plans Have Changed in the Last 6 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Finance Lesson 135<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this assignment, I will write how my life plans have changed in the past 6 months as a result of this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Personal Finance course so far, I have learned many important skills. My life plans have changed in a few ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Time Management: I have been managing my time more than I had been before taking this course. I use a weekly planner, a calendar, and a checklist (both paper and digital versions). I feel that this has helped me manage my time better. I hope to continue doing this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Investing: I have also learned some valuable investing skills, and I want to look into different forms of investing, such as stocks, precious metals, and Bitcoin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writing skills: This isn&#8217;t really a way that my life plans have changed, but my writing skills have certainly improved. Now that I think about it, this could bring up some potential job opportunities!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>College: I still haven&#8217;t decided whether or not I want to go to college, but this course has given me valuable insight and it will help me make a decision later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are all ways that my plans have changed. Hopefully I can implement the skills learned in this course, and use them to my benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Finance Lesson 135 In this assignment, I will write how my life plans have changed in the past 6 months as a result of this course. In the Personal Finance course so far, I have learned many important skills. My life plans have changed in a few ways: These are all ways that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[15,24],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalfinance","tag-personalfinance","tag-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":783,"url":"https:\/\/davidjamesgarber.com\/blog\/archives\/783","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":0},"title":"My Top 5 Investing Tips","author":"David Garber","date":"May 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Personal Finance Lesson 140 Assignment In this assignment, I will be giving 5 tips of investing advice. 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