Life

Just Do It (Donate, That Is)

January 19, 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a particularly remote rock, you have been following news concerning the ongoing tragedy in Haiti. Even with my general distaste for the major 24-hour news channels, I’ve found myself watching as the disaster unfolds, trying to decide what I can do. Like all things I focus my attention on, I’ve [...]

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Weekly Kick in the Ass, Week 1

January 18, 2010

This year I have set a single, fairly aggressive goal to accomplish before I roll into another decade. The decade that starts with the number four. While it is only tangentially related to a particular amount of money, there definitely is a financial component to it. In order to comfortably accomplish what I want, I [...]

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Habits & Their Ends

November 17, 2009

I’m in the process of replacing my computer at the office, and am going through it to find where I hid all my good stuff so I can transfer them over. Amazing the amount of digital bits we collect over the years. Stumbled across a little program called SilkQuit that I installed around five years [...]

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September 2009 Goal Updates

September 2, 2009

If you recall, I set a pair of rather hefty goals to be met on September 1st: A health goal of losing 20+ pounds A financial goal of paying off the remainder of the mortgage So, how’d I do? Am I now a flyweight with no debts in the world? Well, no, not quite. Actually, [...]

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What a Year & a Little Focus Can Do…

July 10, 2009

Just thought I’d share my latest post at the Campaign Blasts forum, entitled ‘Blasting – One Year Later‘: So I noticed today that I’m a week past my one year anniversary as a member of Campaign Blasts. And it has started to sink in how much my life has changed since signing up here. A [...]

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