A documentation of my journey to improve my life
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Work/Life Chaos Just so you all understand I am pretty great at completely underestimating life challenges (which also makes for entertaining stories I guess). My name is Drew Vincent, I’m a 30 year old single guy with a great job and very full life. I recently bought a house this last September, finally moved in this December and since then have done nothing but project after project. I figured I could do most of the work in a few weeks, wrap...
‘Okay what do I have to do today? I should send some emails, finish that excel spreadsheet, call a few clients, make a Facebook post, find some images that look like clouds, and remember to message my girlfriend to make sure we’re still on for dinner at our friends house tonight. Maybe I’ll start with that Facebook post. Oh hey! Looks like Shelby had her baby. I should probably comment on that or she’ll think I’m a dick. Might as well check...
Who’s Got What It Takes To Live Without? Of course living on $56 for food, gas, entertainment, and booze for a week is crazy; it’s ridiculous, drastic, and near impossible. That’s the point! This challenge is supposed to be an exercise in extreme budgeting practice. It’s meant to throw you in an uncomfortable situation and see how (and if) you handle it. What if $56 is all you had? What if your world changed in a second and you had no other choice...
“Why only budget $250 for a month, that’s crazy!” Let me first begin with my motivation for this month’s budget challenge. I suck at budgeting This could be due to a lot of reasons but mostly because I am simply not a planner. Planning involves foresight, scheduling and attention to detail, all things I’m not naturally astute at (unless you look on my resume). I’m more of a spontaneous, adventurous kind of guy. I plan what I have to (the big stuff...
THE CHALLENGE “In an effort to BE BETTERTM I’m going to challenge myself to live on $250 for the entire calendar month of March”. Ryan said it with a completely straight-face. I nodded and smiled and made all the right encouraging noises but in my head my initial reaction was ‘why would anyone actually want to do this?!’ My wife Lee and I, both being accountants, already run monthly family budget spreadsheets that we use to regiment our spending. We’re...
Over the last few days my cooking challenge has really started to build some momentum. After investing into some essential meal planning hacks, I spent my evenings in cultural exploration. First I got to prepare Salt Fish and Ackee, the national dish of Jamaica with my friend Daniel who grew up there. Then Brittney and I were treated to an amazing authentic Chinese cooking night with our friends David and Sophia who went all out with cool Chinese robes, samples of traditional teas...
I’ve cooked three meals (1, 2, 3) already and as good as they’ve turned out they also caused me and my girlfriend Brittney a lot of stress. The first couple nights I was scrambling to run around town to get ingredients last minute (some speciality items taking me over an hour to find) and cooking took between 40 mins and almost 3 hours! I wanted this month to be fun and instead I’ve been causing myself anxiety and causing Brittney and I to fight...
