get yourself sorted

I just read a pithy little piece about how to get yourself sorted.  The hardest thing to change is yourself.  But its the best place to learn.

Work out where you want to go. 
Take stock of where you are now.
Work out what needs to be done to get where you want to go.
Do it.
Work through the 'this is a bit bloody scary' feelings.

ta-da! 

I am currently working on improving my finances.  Its kind of the same story as last year, or was it the year before.  Not that I am in the same position.  But a while ago I really worked on changing things for the better.  And I am at it again.  I don't want to be super frugal for no reason.  But I do want to reduce my mundane outgoings so that I can direct my funds at stuff I really want to do.  And then, I need to up my game on the income front.  Its bugging me that my lovely husband works less than I do, but earns more.  I know he has special skills and talents that he spent years working on and has extra degrees and a scary maths brain that can do a 17 times table off the top of his head.  But surely there are folk out there, with lesser skills and talents than I whose daily rate is higher.  Or whatever.  I want to earn at least £36,000 a year.  I have already set up myself on a challenge of earning £50000 before the end of September.  And I just get to this point of.  Well..... I just don't know how!  And so finding out ways.  So that I increase my income AS WELL as get a bit of a handle on my outgoings.  Well it will mean that I can reach a few of my goals.  Like living mortgage free (in a house that I own) etc.  And being able to get the attic converted and the kitchen re done.  (MAN I want a new kitchen!! -BIG TABLE!!)

So.  Its my challenge.  Am reading a book about it.  Yup.  Am always reading some book or other. And its a little like the one I read a year  or so ago called Overcoming Underearning.  And it really did help.  In fact these things really do usually help.  Bit of focus and attention on them and progress is made.  This one is called Money: A Love Story.  Its the same stuff.  But this time I am not starting from £5 an hour.  This time I am capable of earning much more.   I love my life and I love my work.  I love having the flexibility and time to do things I want, and that I don't have to wrangle (too much) with childcare.  But there is still work to be done.  I am not doing as well I can yet.  And dammit I want to earn as much as my husband does - for the same amount of work done.  Actually I want to earn as much he does for the same amount of work done, but I want us both to work a little more.  Not too much so that we lose the time we have..... But  - say 3 days a week every week.  apart from holidays.... yes that would be good.  And working up to having some sort of residual income that just comes in anyway.  And work on top of that.  good work.  interesting work.  enjoyable work. 

Apart from all that I have been doing a lot of cover teaching lately - for Yoga.  And I really enjoyed it.  It really made me want to have my own class.  I got a sense of how I would teach if I did have a class.  What sort of teacher I would be.  And I began to think that there must be something that kind of combines all the different strands of what I do.  Art, Yoga, Getting Stuff Done. Salads.  ANyway.  Am off to work on increasing my income!  see ya!!