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Latest — 01 Oct 2026

Month 1 Review and the plan for Month 2

September was a rough month to start in. Between extensive work commitments, university commitments and the start of hockey I had a lot going on. I had a bunch of fails but a fair few wins too. Challenge 1: No Spend Spending wise my groceries for the month were less

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Dropping some challenges

So I'm a few weeks into the challenge now and well I'm seeing really great benefits with some of my challenges I now believe others are just negatively impacting me so I've decided to drop them. Challenge 6 - Try new foods. This is proving

Week 2 - Starting to get going

So the second week is complete and I hit some goals and missed some others but I'm starting to get into a routine which is nice. I finished off another non-fiction book "You can just do things" by Cate Hall. It had a few points

Week 1 - It can only go up from here!

So last week was a bit of a mess. I ended up having a training session on Saturday that went from midnight(Yes midnight!) until 8am. So through the week I was gradually adjusting my sleep forward from my normal wake up of 5am which left me just tired and

Cleaning up subscriptions

Today I went through all my personal and business subscriptions to see where I could save some money. While there are a lot I ended up keeping I did manage to cut out around $200/month. This comes after cancelling a bunch of subscriptions last month too so my total

How did I get in so much debt

Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly. I've always carried a bit of credit card debt but usually only a couple of thousand dollars. I'd look at people owing tens of thousands of dollars and just be confused at how you could possible get that far in

Let the challenges begin

While tomorrow is the first of September I've decided to start everything today since it's Monday and that feels like a better starting point than Tuesday. I'm still playing around with the various challenges and rules a bit so there will be some changes

B-B-B-Bonus Challenge

My child and me love watching Cubfan on Youtube and I love his bonus clips so I thought I'd add a very small bonus challenge. I will stop biting my nails. I've bit my nails since I had teeth and I've tried many times

Challenge 10 - It's mathematical(improve math skills)

I dropped out of school when I was 16 but to be honest I was pretty absent most of the time in the 3 years before that. Since then I've always wanted to be much better at math then I am. I've worked through parts of

Challenge 9 - Lets get mobile(improve mobility through routines and yoga)

A few years back I tore my right rotator cuff and it's never returned to full mobility. Combined with getting older and less mobile in general I'm really starting to notice my limits which is impacting my other fitness goals. This goal is quite simple. I

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