A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: challenges
Self Inflicted Pain My first day of this new challenge was by far the most difficult. Being so busy rushing around with the end of last months cooking challenge I didn’t get a chance to go grocery shopping for this month. This meant when I woke up day one I was somewhat limited on my food selection. From 6am when I woke up until after 8pm all I had to eat was two eggs and two granola bars, which I had to...
“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...
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...
Cooking Reflections If this month’s cooking challenge has taught me anything its that I suck at planning ahead. I don’t know if it’s just a male thing or maybe something to do with my birth month (I’m a Libra if you were curious) but scheduling, and planning ahead are just not my areas of forte. This has really seemed to bite me in the ass this month as apparently cooking a good meal is only about 20% actual cooking and 80%...
Pan Fried Chicken, Risotto & Roasted Radishes Friday was finally here. I had survived my first working week of cooking and other than a few late nights, a lot of grocery runs and some hard relationship lessons everything had gone pretty well. This was the day I had been waiting for though. Up till now every dish I had attempted I had been at best winging it and hoping for the best. Now I was actually going to work with a...
Wednesday: Meal 3 – Tofu Pad Thai By the time Wednesday rolled around I have to admit I was pretty exhausted. Late night dinners, grocery store guessing games and relationship tightrope walking had all taken a lot out of me. That being said I was really looking forward to Wednesday’s meal as my friends Justin and Alex were hosting us over at their place. This meant way less stress and way more wine. Justin is a vegetarian and part of...
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...
Just build a blog, how hard can that be, right? Well unfortunately even with the best intentions I somehow always end up doing things the hard way. It’s mid way through January when I decide to commit to my new list of 12 month challenges; my first, to “learn WordPress and build a blog.” I’m eager to get to work on this new exciting venture but unfortunately I now have far less than a month to accomplish this and I haven’t...
12 goals in 12 months, I had decided and there was no turning back. Now just pick 12 goals and start dominating, right? Only one problem, I had no idea what my 12 goals should be. After all this wasn’t a small decision, this is what I would be doing with the entire next year of my life.
Since writing my last post this question of how I can scale my life has consumed me. It’s the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I can get out of my brain at night (making my ability to go to sleep at a reasonable hour impossible..). After nearly a week of unrest I realized my problem; I have all of these aspirations and goals but not the focus and dedication to follow through on them....
