Sometimes when looking at the total amount of our debt, we easily get overwhelmed. Even when we are making good progress on individual debts, it’s just not making the huge, motivating dents against the large total.

Something that my wife and I did was to create Debt Thermometers to visually track our progress.

We have one thermometer that shows our progress against our total debt and one that shows our progress against the debt at the top of our snowball:

This is a simple way to provide yourself visual proof that you are making progress against your mountain of debt.