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April Goal's update
May. 1st, 2019 03:51 pmGoals. January February March
Meta
I had started thinking that having finished Thronescamp and handed over some of my Church responsibilities I might have capacity to carefully take on some new projects, but I was already starting to feel that I was a bit less on top of wedding planning than I might like to be before I got the call offering me a surgery date, and now that I know I'm going to be pretty much out of action for a month or so whilst I recover, I'm feeling very glad that I didn't rush into anything!
Finances
I'm really not doing very well here. I said at the beginning of April that "even if I stick to my budget as planned for the whole month I'll still come in slightly over again." and I'm sure everyone will be astonished that I did not, in fact, stick to my planned budget, and ended up considerably more than a little bit over. One thing I need to be a little bit careful of is the whole "failing with abandon" thing, where I know that I'm going over budget, and so just shrug from then on, as though going £550 over is the same as going £50. On a related note, I think I also need to not worry too much about clawing back overspend from previous months. It'd be nice if I could, but if I try to restrict myself too much then it'll make me more likely to just say "Fuck it" and go over again, whereas keeping roughly to my monthly budget in future should be achievable. Having said all that, my planned spending in May is actually well under budget, because I'm expecting to spend half of it in bed...
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Meta
I had started thinking that having finished Thronescamp and handed over some of my Church responsibilities I might have capacity to carefully take on some new projects, but I was already starting to feel that I was a bit less on top of wedding planning than I might like to be before I got the call offering me a surgery date, and now that I know I'm going to be pretty much out of action for a month or so whilst I recover, I'm feeling very glad that I didn't rush into anything!
Finances
I'm really not doing very well here. I said at the beginning of April that "even if I stick to my budget as planned for the whole month I'll still come in slightly over again." and I'm sure everyone will be astonished that I did not, in fact, stick to my planned budget, and ended up considerably more than a little bit over. One thing I need to be a little bit careful of is the whole "failing with abandon" thing, where I know that I'm going over budget, and so just shrug from then on, as though going £550 over is the same as going £50. On a related note, I think I also need to not worry too much about clawing back overspend from previous months. It'd be nice if I could, but if I try to restrict myself too much then it'll make me more likely to just say "Fuck it" and go over again, whereas keeping roughly to my monthly budget in future should be achievable. Having said all that, my planned spending in May is actually well under budget, because I'm expecting to spend half of it in bed...
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