planning

Week off

by ZombieSkittles on September 25, 2009

I’ve decided that from October 1st until October 8th, I’m going to do something I haven’t done in forever, and spend a week without using my computer, as a way to force myself to do other things.

100_1352This means, no games, no Windows Live Messenger, no blogging; pretty much no internet in general. The only time my computer will be on will be to charge up my iPhone or iPod. Apart from that, it will be off and I’ll be investing my time elsewhere (or at least that’s the plan).
The idea is that when I do this I’ll be forced to do things like go outside. I plan to finally go geocaching during this time period, and maybe get a proper exercise system going without this glowing screen distracting me. I recognize that it’s mostly my fault, but I can never get myself motivated when I could easily sit here reading articles and playing Facebook games.

Plans for that week:

  • Finally fully clean my room.
  • Go geocaching.
  • Start planning my novel for NaNoWriMo.
  • Get some sort of pattern happening exercise wise.
  • Maybe plan some more efficient saving than what I currently do.
  • Catch up with friends I don’t see enough.

There’s probably some more that I’ll try to do, but that seems the main part. Has anyone else gone so far as to cut off internet/computer completely to try and get other things done? How’d that work out for you?

Oh, and as an extra bit, I just want to throw out there that I will still be on Twitter; that’s the joy of having an iPhone.

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Where actually doing the math pays off

by ZombieSkittles on August 14, 2009

I got my tax back, and purposely put a healthy $1000 of it into the savings, bringing it up to a healthy $1400. I say healthy, because this is the most I’ve ever saved.

But that’s not the real purpose of the post. Doing some thinking, and it occurred to me that if I put away more from my fortnightly pay than I already do, I could reach my goal  in around two years. If I saved $500 a fortnight instead of just $200, that becomes $1000 a month, and $12,000 a year. That coupled with any little extras I get, should allow me to reach that much sought after goal that much quicker.
It’s so smart I can’t believe I didn’t realize this before. What a foolish thing to do. Awesome, yes?

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