First Payday Review

To climb step hills requires a slow pace at first. - Shakespeare
Here’s my first payday review!
first the budget stuff:
this is the last two weeks where I will be just examining how my money is spent. Starting with the next paycheck, I will be actually working on a budget. Hopefully that will mean a budget [...]

The Importance of Starting

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
-Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
**From The Quotations Page Website**
Notes about this Quotation
Although this is the popular form of this quotation, a more correct translation from the original Chinese would be “The journey of a thousand miles begins [...]

Get Rid of Temptation

I think the best way to get yourself to be more disciplined is to remove as much temptation from your life as you can. Than, you don’t necessarily have to be srong willed, you just have to avoid thinking about it. Sort of like, out of sight out of mind. What I mean by [...]

Checking the scale

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
Robert Orben
I read once that while you are trying to lose weight, you shouldn’t get on a scale everyday. I’d have to disagree with that. I understand the reason they [...]

Where I’m at right now, physically

I’m in shape…Round is a shape.
I think I’m at least a little bit athletic, but it’s obvious I’m out of shape and definitely no where close to the kind of shape I should be in. Basically, At the moment, I need to lose some weight, get a better base fitness level, and get [...]