I have been terrible at posting lately. Between work (teaching), school (finishing up my second credential), and life in general, I’ve hardly had time to do much of anything else, let alone post an article! However, finances are still my top priority around here:

So far, so good is all I can say at this point. My quarterly increments are working out quite well, even though I’m a bit behind on the savings portion of this quarter’s plan.

Here I am in the second quarter of the year and so far, my goals are shaping up nicely (for the most part…but more on that below). This year, I decided to make my goals more management (aka smaller) and limit myself to shorter time lines, hence the quarter business.

I often hear myself quoting Scarlett O’Hara from the movie Gone with the Wind, “Well, tomorrow is another day.” Or, “I don’t want to think about that today, I’ll deal with that tomorrow.” Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow…..but tomorrow never comes.

This year, instead of coming up with annual goals that I wouldn’t meet as the year progressed, I decided to select a few goals for each quarter. Having a shorter amount of time to fulfill them, I chose four smallish goals for this quarter that I felt would be attainable: