Getting back on Track

This past year I have not been following my own advise beyond aggressively contributing to my workplace 401K. Here are the four habits I will be implementing over the next four weeks (doing it all at once will feel over-whelming).

• Check the fridge and freezer before bed. Some days between kids, work, and grad school I have been resorting to eating out — I uploaded four months of bank statements into AI to analyze my spend. The amount spent eating out, to me was unacceptable, especially since the food wasn’t anything outstanding.

• To build on eating at home, there were a lot of stops at grocery stores. Again, cooking what is at home rather than what everyone has a taste for (unless its taco night and we’re out of tortilla’s). I’m going to try and reduce my grocery bill by $200-$300 a month.

• Reduce online shopping/miscellaneous expenditures. Is this really a need, or is it a want.

• Get sleep. I find that when I don’t get enough sleep that is the biggest impact on giving in to picking up dinner, not thinking about what is in the fridge/panty, and impulse control.

What steps are you going to take? Small steps make it more likely that you will succeed, and steps that can build on one another will make a big impact.