Monthly challenges for 2020 haven’t been a total bust (like 2019), but they’ve not been super consistent. I’m picking it back up for October w/ a “Phone/Email Simplification” challenge. Here’s what that means: Gmail is hidden on my phone. I’m a huge fan of email batching and do a pretty good job of batching while […]
Category Archives: Monthly Challenge
May Challenge – Journaling
I’m trying a journaling challenge again and I’m committed to making it all the way through May. This time, I’m committing to journaling 5x per week (rather than every day, which is what I tried last year.) There are tons of benefits to journaling: It helps you be more reflective, it helps you be accountable […]
Blogging Challenge Recap
My April challenge was to write 3 blog posts per week and share them on social media. Per my original post, I tried 30 day challenges last year and fizzled out on month #1 b/c I tried to bite off more than I should have. How did I do? I wrote 12 total posts (including […]
You Can’t Out Train a Bad Diet
I did a mini-challenge last week. I challenged the conventional wisdom that “You can’t out train a bad diet.” It took me ~30 years or so to actually believe that, but it still seems like you could work out enough that you can eat/drink whatever you want. At the beginning of last week, I weighed […]
How Will We Know When the Austin Real Estate Market Begins to Recover?
The easiest way to tell if the market is turning is by looking at the # of pending sales and the # of new closings. However, these are lagging indicators. Sales were under contract 30-45 days ago and buyers started shopping 1-6 months before they put a property under contract. Can we determine that the […]
Persistence
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and will […]
April Challenge – Blog Posts
Adam Salamon originally inspired me to try out monthly challenges in 2019. I obviously swung and missed on that in 2019. I think my issue was a really strict and hard challenge for January that I only stuck to for about 2 weeks. Adam recently recommitted to his own monthly challenges, so I thought I […]
Monthly Challenge(s) – January 2019
We’re back from our ~2 week mountain trip and it was excellent! Beck skied 4 days this year and really took to it. I took him to the top of the ski lift and he was able to get down on his own, only falling a couple of times, and in control the entire time! […]
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