February 28, 2009

It was a good week, I got a lot done, we found a good renter for our duplex, and we'll be officially signing a lease for our current renters! So things are getting a bit more organized.

Over the next few days, as soon as my payment goes through, the ring will be officially paid off! And hopefully after I get my profit sharing check on the 15th, I'll be able to pay off the car! I won't exactly get all that money to play with because I changed the allowances on my W-4 so I basically decreased my paycheck, but I increased the lump sum I'll get back next February when I do my taxes. I'm thinking a lot of that will go towards the wedding. Megan and I talked about going to a Hilton in the Caribbean instead of an all-inclusive so that I can use my points, and our honeymoon would be relatively cheap. But we don't need to make that decision until this September. So on the financial side of life, I'm living pretty easy right now. I'm also going to be participating in Ramit Sethi's Challenge, so it'll be interesting to see how much money he can help me save this month!

I've changed up my working out routine. Now I work out about every other day, but incorporate more physical exercise in all of my days. I've started taking the stairs and walking more. I've also started drinking a lot more water and eating less. And on the days that I don't work out I eat a lot less than the days that I do. So we'll see how that turns out. I can tell already that I'm feeling a little bit better though.

My focus has been pretty good. I've realized that I need to organize my things and spend more time on things I like and less on things that I don't really care about. Like this morning, I went through all the blogs that I have in my "Favorites" tab, and narrowed it down to the ones that I actually like to read. So instead of 15 blogs, I only have 10 that I'm following now. My next project is to go through all the articles I've ripped out of my magazines and see which ones I'll ever use. But doing these things helps me to focus my time and energy on things that I actually like, instead of trying to learn everything that's out there.

I finished reading a book called The 11th Element, but Robert Scheinfeld. It was an alright book. It talked about how you have this inner network who helps you accomplish your life goals, and you need to ask that network to find things for you and to make things happen. I can partially see this as not being complete bull because in my life, I've been able to acheive things that I really want to, and things have just happened. But on the other hand, making requests to some inner network that works for you is a bit out there... But it was a somewhat interesting read. The other day I realized that I had so many books on my bookshelf that I had never read. So I plan on reading some of those over the next few months.

I did a good cleaning of the house today. And either today or tomorrow Megan and I are going to go through the spare bedroom and see what's going to be given to Goodwill! We have so much junk in there and I have no idea what it all is...