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Putting everything in it's place
It's been one of those days. I've actually stopped. My housemate has been in and out of the house and I've not moved. I even decided only to eat lunch. No breakfast, no dinner, just lunch. And why?
Well honestly, I've been doing ok, but things have just been chugging along like a steam engine. I've been shovelling everything into the fire (eating, sleeping, exercising, a bit of studying, socialising etc) so I have been moving along the tracks but I've been pulling a few carriages of bad habits. I've been ignoring the Masters carriage for example which is missing a few windows, and the money carriage...goodness...it's covered in 8 months of grime and soot with some squeaky pivots thrown in for good measure.
And that's why today I stopped. I've done some "me time". A Spring clean, in Autumn, I suppose. I've managed to read everything I can for the first week of my latest Masters course. I've researched various things for work and established that my Twitter account is a good tool for keeping up-to-date with the...da da daaaa...News...and the developments in the Education world (mainly relating to the ridiculously massive gap that still exists between Policy and Practice). That puts the windows back in the Masters carriage.
The Money carriage is not so easy to clean. I've become really set on the American Adventure, determined is the right word, and I know that the only way I can afford to go is if I just STOP SPENDING. It's a very simple concept, the best one that there is, and really the only one. However it is not one that can be solved without a bit of 'mind over matter', a bit of elbow grease. Thanks to keeping track of every penny that I have earned and spent since December last year, I know that my social life is the biggest "unnessecary" expense that I have: eating out 5 times a week is a bit excessive after all. I'm now restricting myself to once in the week and once at the weekend. Done.
Then there's the "misc" purchases I tend to pick up here, there and everywhere. I can no longer rationalise the need for a new pair of shoes unless others break (which is why I can get these, or these, or maybe these...), nor can I buy chocolate because I've had a tough day, rather I need to wait til I get home and eat the chocolate I ration in the fridge. You see, what really gets me is that I have all these things to help me with my finances set-up: a budget for everything, a tracker on my iPod for said budget and, most importantly, a box of chocolate in the fridge for emergencies, oh, wait no, I mean a decent enough, regular income. It's just I don't use these things to help me.
Now it's time to put theory into practice.
It's been one of those days. I've actually stopped. My housemate has been in and out of the house and I've not moved. I even decided only to eat lunch. No breakfast, no dinner, just lunch. And why?
Well honestly, I've been doing ok, but things have just been chugging along like a steam engine. I've been shovelling everything into the fire (eating, sleeping, exercising, a bit of studying, socialising etc) so I have been moving along the tracks but I've been pulling a few carriages of bad habits. I've been ignoring the Masters carriage for example which is missing a few windows, and the money carriage...goodness...it's covered in 8 months of grime and soot with some squeaky pivots thrown in for good measure.
And that's why today I stopped. I've done some "me time". A Spring clean, in Autumn, I suppose. I've managed to read everything I can for the first week of my latest Masters course. I've researched various things for work and established that my Twitter account is a good tool for keeping up-to-date with the...da da daaaa...News...and the developments in the Education world (mainly relating to the ridiculously massive gap that still exists between Policy and Practice). That puts the windows back in the Masters carriage.
The Money carriage is not so easy to clean. I've become really set on the American Adventure, determined is the right word, and I know that the only way I can afford to go is if I just STOP SPENDING. It's a very simple concept, the best one that there is, and really the only one. However it is not one that can be solved without a bit of 'mind over matter', a bit of elbow grease. Thanks to keeping track of every penny that I have earned and spent since December last year, I know that my social life is the biggest "unnessecary" expense that I have: eating out 5 times a week is a bit excessive after all. I'm now restricting myself to once in the week and once at the weekend. Done.
Then there's the "misc" purchases I tend to pick up here, there and everywhere. I can no longer rationalise the need for a new pair of shoes unless others break (which is why I can get these, or these, or maybe these...), nor can I buy chocolate because I've had a tough day, rather I need to wait til I get home and eat the chocolate I ration in the fridge. You see, what really gets me is that I have all these things to help me with my finances set-up: a budget for everything, a tracker on my iPod for said budget and, most importantly, a box of chocolate in the fridge for emergencies, oh, wait no, I mean a decent enough, regular income. It's just I don't use these things to help me.
Now it's time to put theory into practice.
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