A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: sacrifice
Have you ever gotten in your car, driven somewhere and then realized upon arrival that you have no recollection of the trip over? How about checking the clock at work and realizing ‘holy crap, it’s already 2:30, where did my day disappear to?’ Or how about getting into an argument and then suddenly stopping to ask yourself, ‘how did we get here?’ This happened to me all the time, I would float through my days doing my best to steer my life in the...
‘Okay what do I have to do today? I should send some emails, finish that excel spreadsheet, call a few clients, make a Facebook post, find some images that look like clouds, and remember to message my girlfriend to make sure we’re still on for dinner at our friends house tonight. Maybe I’ll start with that Facebook post. Oh hey! Looks like Shelby had her baby. I should probably comment on that or she’ll think I’m a dick. Might as well check...
3 months into my journey to ‘scale my life’ It was Saturday morning and I was sitting out on my deck drinking coffee on what looked to possibly be the nicest day of the year (so far). Although the weather and ambience were more than relaxing I found myself lost in thought trying to evaluate my life. I had just completed 3 of the most challenging and rewarding months in recent memory but the question that kept spinning around in my head...
What have I learned living on $250 for a month? I’ve been asked this a few times over the course of my challenge and each week the answer seems to be different. I guess that’s kind of the best part of doing these challenges and writing this blog, I’m always progressively learning and changing my understanding of the world I’m exploring that month. Just thinking about the growth and development I’ve gained over the course of this month makes me believe that...
What if you woke up one day and you found that without warning your whole life had been completely flipped upside down? What if your house, your job, your financial security and everything you knew were all of a sudden ripped away and you were forced to start from the absolute bottom. What would you do? Would you breakdown, fall apart and give up or would you brush yourself off, pick yourself up and will yourself to move forward? It’s a...
My name is Molly and I live on $50 a week all 52 weeks of the year. So I am not really accepting Ryan’s challenge, since budgeting is something I already do in my everyday life, but I am going to tell you about how I live of $50/week and why budgeting and meal planning is so important to me. First, a bit about me and how I know Ryan. My Story I live in Kelowna, BC and work in...
Big Plans For The Day This was supposed to be a good day. Actually I’ve been looking forward to this day for a while. Funny how just when you think things are going fine and you’ve got everything under control, that’s when life will pick you up, whip you around and land you so drastically off course that you’re not sure how you’ll find your way again. I woke up at 6am on Friday nervous and excited about the busy...
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...
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..
