1. Week 2: Start Creating Awesome Finances
Let’s move into Week 2 of our Awesome Finances Challenge — this week we’re going to use our daily session to start setting up our finances in an awesome way. What would awesome finances look like? Some ideas: You’re debt-free or moving in the direction of debt-free. That means creating an amount each month that […]
3. Why Eat a Healthy Diet?
That question might seem too obvious — we all know that a healthy diet is something we want! But it’s worth exploring, at least briefly, because when push comes to shove, most people don’t really seem to want the healthy diet. They want the benefits (good health, looking lean and hot) but not the actual […]
3. The Daily Gratitude & Letting Go Habit
For our Gratitude & Letting Go Challenge this month, you might ask yourself — what’s the actual habit? What am I supposed to do every day? And that’s an awesome question. We’re going to explore Gratitude& Letting Go in various areas of our lives, but in general we’re going to work on the skills of […]
3. On Mindfulness & Focusing on the Other Person
Two of the most important concepts we’ll be working with in the Mindful Relationships Challenge are 1) mindfulness as a tool to improve relationships, and 2) focusing on the other person. Let’s take a look at each of these ideas briefly. Mindfulness in Relationships How does mindfulness help? Well, when I first started making changes, […]
3. The Daily Unprocrastination Session
The key habit during this month of Unprocrastination will be to have a daily Unprocrastination Session. What’s that? It’s just a session of at least 5 minutes when you’ll focus on doing one thing (or a second thing if you finish the first). Something you’ve been putting off. If you only have to do 5 […]
3. Finish Your Quick Assessment
We won’t do a detailed financial assessment in this challenge, but just get some of the basics down. I’d like you to use your next two sessions to finish up your assessment in small chunks. Here’s how. Day 1 Your action step depending on which track you’re in: Debt reduction: Yesterday you should have at […]
2. Awesome Finances: Start a Quick Assessment
We’ll start our road to Financial Awesomeness with a quick session: today we’ll briefly start our assessment of where we are. It’s hard to make any progress if you don’t know where you are yet, so it’s a great idea to take a few minutes to start to create a picture of your current financial […]
2. Letting Go of Commitments
Simple Living is not just about getting rid of physical clutter (though that’s nice of course) … it’s about making space throughout your life, including reducing the amount of things you stuff into your day. How do you declutter your time? Start by getting rid of the big things that take up your time. For […]