A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: motivation
Who’s Got What It Takes To Live Without? Of course living on $56 for food, gas, entertainment, and booze for a week is crazy; it’s ridiculous, drastic, and near impossible. That’s the point! This challenge is supposed to be an exercise in extreme budgeting practice. It’s meant to throw you in an uncomfortable situation and see how (and if) you handle it. What if $56 is all you had? What if your world changed in a second and you had no other choice...
THE CHALLENGE “In an effort to BE BETTERTM I’m going to challenge myself to live on $250 for the entire calendar month of March”. Ryan said it with a completely straight-face. I nodded and smiled and made all the right encouraging noises but in my head my initial reaction was ‘why would anyone actually want to do this?!’ My wife Lee and I, both being accountants, already run monthly family budget spreadsheets that we use to regiment our spending. We’re...
Okay admittedly I got off to a rocky start registering a domain and hosting service (see shameful last post The Internet is Hard) but Wordpress itself was actually pretty easy! Sure there’s definitely some complicated coding jargon that exists underneath the surface but for the most part everything was point and click and there was a ton of great tutorials that made it really hard to screw up (even for me). I’m hoping this will be a great resource for anyone starting...
Just build a blog, how hard can that be, right? Well unfortunately even with the best intentions I somehow always end up doing things the hard way. It’s mid way through January when I decide to commit to my new list of 12 month challenges; my first, to “learn WordPress and build a blog.” I’m eager to get to work on this new exciting venture but unfortunately I now have far less than a month to accomplish this and I haven’t...
12 goals in 12 months, I had decided and there was no turning back. Now just pick 12 goals and start dominating, right? Only one problem, I had no idea what my 12 goals should be. After all this wasn’t a small decision, this is what I would be doing with the entire next year of my life.
Since writing my last post this question of how I can scale my life has consumed me. It’s the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I can get out of my brain at night (making my ability to go to sleep at a reasonable hour impossible..). After nearly a week of unrest I realized my problem; I have all of these aspirations and goals but not the focus and dedication to follow through on them....
It’s Saturday 9:30pm on January 2nd 2016 and I’ve just spent my day considering what I want my new year to look like. I guess when I think about it, I’m considering what I want my entire future to look like. I know it’s cliché to think about these things at new years but maybe I’m just a sucker for a cliché. Maybe I should go back..
