6 Month Review

Yikes, the last 6 months have flown by.    Much has been accomplished in this short amount of time.  I will recap my goals for the year with where I am at today and see how I did, and what I still have to do before the rest of the year slips by.

Career

It’s going well.  I love my job and I love the people that I work with.  We successfully moved into a new office space in January, which I helped to get built out.   I am getting more organized and I am finding more ways to add value.

I’m happy with the progress I’ve made so far.

Health/Fitness

I’m very pleased with the progress that I’ve made here.   I’ve been working out seriously 3 to 5 times a week.  I’ve been alternating a seriously kick-your-butt class at the YMCA called GRUNT with running.    It has already had a serious impact on my body and my fitness level.

My running speed is improving.  I was 6 minutes faster in this year’s Seadogs 5K than last year.    That’ s better than expected.

Oh, and I’ve lost 20 pounds so far this year.

Affiliate Marketing

Still plugging along here.  I’ve created one content rich site so far this year (3 is my goal).  I still need to carve out more time for this but based on the next list item, I don’t imagine that will happen until the fall.

Home

We have spent the last month in a full out decluttering/house fixing up sprint.  We purchased a new house this month, a fixer-upper of course, so we needed to get our house on the market.    The new house is half the size of our current house so we have to purge!

We managed to clear out at least 7 SUV-loads full of miscellaneous crap to Goodwill in the last month.  I cannot describe how amazing it feels to get rid of stuff.  I thought I was doing a decent job all along of de-cluttering, but I was not.   I was fooling myself.  Only in the last few weeks have I gotten serious.   I am showing no mercy with my possessions.  If I don’t use them daily or at most weekly, they are going.   I am not allowing things to remain “just in case” I may need them “someday”.  It is all going.   The house looks amazing and it is so easy to keep neat and clean.

The next house, we have dubbed the “tiny house”.  It will be a real challenge to live in 1100 square feet but I think it will be really fun.   We will only bring furniture and possessions that have a designated place to live.  If they don’t have a spot, they aren’t coming with us.

Why are we moving into a tiny house?  I’ll post about that next time.