Baby Steps

One thing that the process of counting (as outlined in A Prosperous Heart by Julia Cameron) has done for me is that I'm cooking way more and eating out less. I knew this on some level, but having to write down exactly how much I was doing it (frequency) and how much it was costing me, helped me make a change. It's weird. There are some days when I spend nothing.  No spending days; I like that.

I have also resolved to do more work with Mint.com. I signed up and worked with it a bit, and then just really didn't want to look at it. That's exactly what I shouldn't be doing. If you don't want to look at it, that means you're afraid of it and in some unconscious way you're also saying that money isn't important. While it's not everything, it is something that deserves attention. So I will be trying to change my resistance to taking a hard look at my finances and hey, maybe I can get a better handle on them  The funny thing is that I've worked as a bookkeeper for a lot of years, way more than I'd like to admit.  It's true, that whatever you do for a living kind of gets neglected on the personal level in your personal life. Have to balance and reconcile bank accounts all day at work?? When you get home, I guarantee that the LAST thing you will want to do is make entries and balance your own accounts.  Pretty pathetic.  So that's my resolve. Today.  Progress report to be filed at a later date. Oh Prosperous Heart, you are a task master!