New Year’s Resolution Round-Up - 3 Months Later

April 1st, 2009 | Uncategorized
  • 7 Good
  • 3 Not-so-Good
  • 2 Bad
  • 3 On Hold

The Good:

  • Pay off current (slight) credit card debt by April 1 July 1.  Taking longer than I had hoped, but I’m still chugging away.
    • 12/31: ~$7k
    • 1/31: ~$4.8k
    • 2/28: ~$4.3k (thanks for nothing, washer/dryer)
    • 3/31: ~$1.9k
  • Put away at least 1 month’s salary in cash-on-hand.  1 month’s net income is sitting in ING in my “Rainy Day” fund.  For a “Pass +” I’m going to try to get 1 month’s gross tucked away.
  • Contribute $20 / month to a worthy, off-beat charity.  Suggestions are welcome.
  • Move all my business and personal contact information into one place.  Keep it up to date.  Moved all my contact information to a combo of Plaxo and Outlook.  Need to figure out how to populate my cell phone w/out resorting to the low-tech option of typing all those numbers in.
  • Reduce (or at least don’t increase) stress level of fiance during marriage planning process.  I think I’m doing a pretty good job here.  We’ll see what happens as the big day approaches.
  • Drive the speed limit, no speeding tickets. Been setting the cruise control and driving the speed limit (which sucks).  No tickets yet.
  • Improve golf game enough to be a non-embarrassment to the fiancee.  Been hitting the shit out of the ball at the range.  Hopefully I’ll be able to take it to the golf course in the next few weeks.  Target: 3 sub-100 rounds before the honeymoon.

The Not-So-Good:

  • Get down to a fighting weight of 210 lbs by Memorial Day.  Being lazy and prone to procrastination, this one clearly needs some sub-goals:
    • 1/6 (start): 240.3 lbs
    • End of January: 237.8
    • End of February: 228 lbs (Actual 228.6)
    • End of March: 221 lbs (Actual 227.1)
    • End of April: 215 219 lbs
    • End of May: 210 lbs
  • Become able to do 100 push ups.
    • January: Maxed out at 30
    • February: Not a whole lot of progress.  Still at 30.
    • March: Haven’t done anything.  If I don’t get moving on this in April, this one moves to the “Fail” bin.
  • Continue fat blogging.  Anyone else notice a pattern of weight-loss related failure?

The Bad:

  • Get PMP Certification.  No action here, yet.
  • Acquire 1 useful skill (2nd time’s the charm).  Suggestions from my 3 readers are welcome.

The On-Hold:

  • Maintain said fighting weight through Thanksgiving. ON HOLD until I reach fighting weight.
  • Maintain debt-free (other than mortgage) status through Xmas 2009. ON HOLD until I pay off credit card debt.
  • Tile the bathrooms, foyer, and kitchen. ON HOLD until I get my tax return finish paying down credit cards and save up enough.  Depending on my future living situation, I may nix this one.  We shall see.
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  • Maybe you should start a debt free blog.
    You can publicly track your expenses or savings.

    put it under /debt/

    New goal for you (by June 30th):
    Fix your domain so that if you go to http://mydigitalho.me, it doesn't take visitors to a page that says it is under construction.
  • I'd given up on updates. The fact that you've started again makes me happy. I agree that you should start a debt free blog, but if that cuts into your exercise time then make sure exercise takes priority.

    I'm trying to come up with a useful skill you can acquire, but I'm blanking.
  • I've considered the fiscal responsibility blog (or whatever the snappy title would be), but I'm having a hard time drawing the line between my privacy (for some reason $ seems more personal than love handles) and it containing enough info to be interesting.

    What kind of info might I include? What kind of info would you guys be willing to share?
  • I think the idea is more along the lines of a food journal for money.
    The point of a food journal (e.g. this blog) is so you can look at what you eat and hopefully realize what you are doing wrong. Or, in this case, have others make fun of you for what you may or may not know you are doing wrong.

    In the same sense, you could outline daily expenses so you and others could see why you aren't meeting your debt reduction goals as fast as you would like. Or, maybe you have a lot of legit expenses and want opinions on how to change those.
    You could use round numbers, but this shouldn't include investments. Mainly things you spend your money on.
    We don't need to see how much you make. We just assume you want to reduce your spending.
  • I want salary info, check stubs, credit card numbers, everything.

    You should just hook twitter up to your bank account.
  • Blogging is now solidly in the fail column. I don't think its too big a risk on my part to think that the weight loss and pushups are also failures.

    In case you care, the terrorists and Sean Hannity win if you gain weight.
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