The 'complete this challenge' challenge...suitable for all!

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £40.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £1.50/£15.00 surveys, 0/£40.00 free cash back/clicks
Total to Date - £204.75/£310.00

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £10.00

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.

Today's challenges
07.00 - 08.15 - MSE/Morning Routine/Family up and out
08.15 - 09.00 - Lollypop/kids to school
09.00 - 11.00 - TD/RB - hair wash and dress to shoes
11.00 - 13.00 - Drop card and chocolates into VW
- Mystery shop 1 - Done but it was an audit that took much longer than planned. Their stocking system was completely chaotic.
- Mystery shop 2 - Had to move to tomorrow because of above
13.00 - 14.30 - Buy hat/scarf/gloves for self and thermals for DS - moving to Saturday as need to buy more things and will do all at once.
14.30 - 15.45 - Lollypop
15.45 - 16.15 - MSE break and chill - Lightspeed Survey
16.15 - 18.00 - Vegetable Soup/DS Spelling and maths homework/washing/Afternoon and evening routine/Flylady
18.00 - 23.00 - Write up two mystery shops and chill with family - Do C&H and finish YP paperwork

Remember
- C&H
- Send card for Chirs
- Finish paperwork for YP's
- Lightspeed Survey
- Text cousin details of Car and D.O.B's
- Clear out car
- Fill in invoice for Asso payment
- Look out and iron clothes too small for DS - friend expecting them.
- Meter readings for Scottish Power changeover
- Send off DD information to Alliance and Leicester
- Print off forwarded e-mail aims and objectives for friend and give to her son tomorrow

Diet Day
Meusli
Ham salad sandwich
Vegetable soup

Thursday - Master messroom! and landing
Level one
Strip the bedding and get it washed!
30 minutes floordrobe/junk clearing!!
Level Two
Vacuum and turn the mattress, vacuum the landing and floor - Nearly knocked myself out turning our heavy, king size matress - and knocked everything off the dressing table LOL. This is hard work.
Remake the bed
Extras
Collect all the dirty laundry from upstairs

Well I picked up another couple of mystery shops to do today, it all helps.

DH and I went through the budget last night and although we are earning more and are much more careful with our money, there is still very little margin for error.

Then, the lady from the Yellow Pages rang and asked if I would do another couple of rounds for her, to add to the two i've already done, as she said she'd been let down by a number of people. Quite a few had started and couldn't finish (there's a surprise, it was a killer at the end when the weather turned foul).

So I said "OK then" ....... Nope I stood firm and said, "thanks but no thanks", I wasn't even tempted (well maybe slightly). .

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £40.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £1.50/£15.00 surveys, 0/£40.00 free cash back/clicks
Total to Date - £204.75/£310.00

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £25.00

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.
Join The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

Today's challenges
06.30 - 07.30 - Type up mystery shop audit
07.30 - 08.15 - MSE/Morning Routine/Family up and out
08.15 - 09.00 - Lollypop/kids to school
09.00 - 09.30 - TD/RB - Pop in to the school - hand in letter
09.30 - 12.30 - Accounts job then drop DS off at his friend's house
12.30 - 13.00 - Drop card and chocolates into VW - Moved to tomorrow - as going in that direction
13.00 - 14.00 - Mystery shop - moved to tomorrow - will be going in that direction
14.00 - 15.00 - Type up mystery shop - moved to tomorrow as will be going in that direction
15.00 - 18.00 - Flylady - Friday and make sure house is clean and clear for weekend - finish off bibs and bobs on list that have been missed this week.
18.00 - 23.00 - Chill night - Watch Brad Pitt in Benjamin Button

Remember
- C&H
- Send card for Chirs
- Finish paperwork for YP's
- Lightspeed Surveys
- Reply to cousin's text
- Phone Lollypop supervisor
- Letter for school
- DD for school
- Look out and iron clothes too small for DS - friend expecting them.
- Meter readings for Scottish Power changeover
- Send off DD information to Alliance and Leicester
- Print off forwarded e-mail aims and objectives for friend and give to her son tomorrow
- Make sure all the washing for the holiday is done - (looked it all out - working my way through the washes)
- Pick up grease remover from Tesco.

Diet Day
Meusli
Ham salad sandwich
Vegetable burgers and chips for tea

Friday - children pits, spare rooms or just neglected spaces
Level One
Make half an hour for yourself
Change and dirty bedding that needs it!
Level Two
Vacuum through the rooms that need it
Wash any soft furnishings that require a wash (cushions all need a wash)
Collect any stinky laundry from about the place
Level Three
Clear out the toy boxes.. (or a box of guff) .. Santa wants to fill them up.. but he can't if there is no space! - (Throw out 20 things)
Clean out any bins.. and do a binbag dance!!
Clear out a grotty cupboard!.. any cupboard so long as it is grotty! (Downstairs cupboard)

Extras
Final final shopping lists

DS did a lovely job tidying his room and dusting and polishing the house.


Well, to keep me focused on doubling my income in 2010, i've joined 'The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread.' I have pledged to get the money through new customers in my fledgling Accounts Management business, and I am quite excited at the prospect.

It is going to be another leap out of my comfort zone, but, as i've discovered, Yellow Pages, mystery shopping, cleaning, ebaying etc are not exactly comfortable, and the above is a much better long term prospect. Until the business is producing a decent income though, it will have to run in tandem with the other money making schemes, so I will need to be extremely organised in 2010.

Lol - going to have to work triple fast now, as i've spent a couple of very enjoyable hours reading Debt Free Diaries.

Quite a productive day overall - house clean and orderly going into the weekend, thanks to some sterling help from the wee man. I'll nail the last few bits of paperwork tomorrow.

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £40.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £1.50/£15.00 surveys, 0/£40.00 free cash back/clicks
Total to Date - £204.75/£310.00

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £25.00

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.
Join The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

Today's challenges
08.30 - 09.30 - Lie in and mooch on MSE
09.30 - 10.30 - Polish off outstanding paperwork from this week
10.30 - 11.30 - Wash on/out and away
11.45 - 12.00 - Mystery shop
12.00 - 14.30 - Shopping - hat/scarf/gloves - Jeans and warm top
15.00 - 16.00 - Meet YP lady to hand back paperwork
16.00 - 16.30 - Pick up veg for tonights tea
16.30 - 17.00 - Type up mystery shop
17.00 - 23.00 - Chill with family - X Factor - DH cooks roast dinner.

Remember
- C&H
- Send card for Chris
- Finish paperwork for YP's
- DD for school - Must do tomorrow and post to school
- Give clothes to friend for wee boy -she was delighted with them
- Meter readings for Scottish Power changeover Must do tomorrow
- Send off DD information to Alliance and Leicester - done
- Give aims and objectives to friend - Dropped them in
- Continue to work through the washes - Done three - up to date now
- WS

Diet Day
Meusli
Sandwich
Roast beef and trimmings cooked by DH

Right, time to target the remember list today as a few of them have been on all week. Holiday's on Monday, going to Centre Parcs with family, friends and their kids. Can't wait.

The shops were surprisingly quiet today, the staff looked positively bored, but were extremely helpful. Got everything I was looking for at the outlet stores.

DeeDeeinDooDoo

Have a lovely holiday Scrooge. Hope you can remember what to do with all that leisure time!

scrooge2008

DeeDeeinDooDoo wrote: »

Have a lovely holiday Scrooge. Hope you can remember what to do with all that leisure time!

I had a really great time DeeDee, thanks.

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £40.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £4.50/£15.00 surveys, 0/£40.00 free cash back/clicks
Total to Date - £207.75/£310.00

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £25.00

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.
Join The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

Today's challenges

08.30 - 10.30 - Lie in and mooch on MSE
10.30 - 11.30 - Check spreadsheets and banking - Print off information on Leaflets/Remember list
10.30 - 11.30 - Post Office - Buy Washing Powder/Thank you cards - send stuff for cousin
11.30 - 12.30 - Empty cases - washing on - house tidy (Part 1) - Baked potato in oven
12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch - baked potato
13.30 - 14.30 - house tidy (Part 2) - Move to Sunday
14.30 - 18.30 - Draft attempt at marketing leaflet/TW - Move to Sunday
18.30 - 23.00 - DH makes roast dinner - chill in front of strictly.

Remember
- C&H - Move to Sunday morning
- Send card for Chris and DS Grandad - Move to Sunday
- DD for school - Move to Sunday
- Meter readings for Scottish Power changeover
- For cousin - M&S £5.00 off £30.00 spend vouchers x 5
- E-mail her reflexology chart
- Look up cups with Z on for friend's grandson
- Send her spare Morrisons till receipt
- Forward on to her UKMonkey's Mystery Shopping Logger.
- Transfer money to mum
- Pinecone surveys
- Phone NPower
- Order wine with voucher

Diet Day
Meusli
Baked potato and tuna
Roast beef and trimmings cooked by DH

Had a fabulous time at Centre Parcs, and i'm feeling really energised. I came back to the results of my four paralegal assignments and they were all above 94%, with excellent comments. I was so surprised and delighted.

I've done a review of this year's activities and a business plan for 2010. The £24,000 I'm going to earn breaks down like this:-

Lollypop/School work - £4,800
Mystery Shopping/Cash back/Surveys/Clicks/Yellow Pages delivery - £1,800
Cleaning job - £800
Account's business with current client - £4,800
Ebay/Amazon - £600
Tesco points - 30,000 points for £1200.00 of deals (holidays/cinema/meals out)

The above is what I made this year, so it is easily achievable and worked out at around 28 hours work a week.

The extra £10,000 is to come from new account's clients. The next step for getting my new clients is to produce a marketing leaflet and drop this through 50 prospects letterboxes during the first week of January 2010.

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £64.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £4.50/£15.00 surveys, 0/£40.00 free cash back/clicks
Total to Date - £231.75/£310.00

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £25.00

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.
Join The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

Today's challenges

08.30 - 10.30 - Lie in and mooch on MSE
10.30 - 11.30 - Dress to shoes/Remember list - Baked potato on
11.30 - 12.30 - Two more washes - Make Lentil Soup
12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch - baked potato
13.30 - 14.30 - house tidy (Part 2)
14.30 - 15.30 - Draft attempt at marketing leaflet
15.30 - 17.00 - Cinema audit and type up and send
17.00 - 19.00 - Ironing for the week - Organise for Monday - Pork caserole
19.00 - 20.30 - 2nd cinema audit - and type up/send
20.30 - 22.30 - Chill

Remember
- C&H - Move to Sunday morning
- Send card for Chris and DS Grandad
- DD for school
- Sort out A&L info
- Transfer money from Business Account into A&L - £550.00
- Send copy of last statement from N/Wide to A&L
- New home card for friend who's just moved
- Transfer money to two Tesco accounts for DH and I for points
- Look into 2000 points phone offers and selling options.
- Convert some points into Cineworld vouchers to see Avatar
- Join Swagbucks

Diet Day
Meusli
Baked potato and salmon
Pork fillet in white wine sauce with rice and kale

Well, I've bought a mobile phone from Tesco for just over £50.00, through Quidco. It has earned me 2106 points and is selling well on ebay for around £35.00, so i'll pick it up from the store tomorrow and stick it on ebay in the evening.

I'm enjoying collecting and spending points. This quarter i'm on target for 15,000 points.

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £64.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £5.30/£15.00 surveys, 1.83/£40.00 free cash back/clicks
Total this month - £234.30/£310.00, 4500/5000 Tesco points

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £25.00 - Start properly Januar 1st 2010.

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.
Join The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

Today's challenges

08.30 - 10.30 - Lie in and mooch on MSE
10.30 - 11.30 - Dress to shoes/Remember list - Baked potato on
11.30 - 12.30 - Two more washes - Make Lentil Soup
12.30 - 13.30 - Lunch - baked potato
13.30 - 14.30 - Flylady - Half done
14.30 - 15.30 - Draft attempt at marketing leaflet
15.30 - 17.30 - Take DS out for snowball fight/sledging
17.30 - 18.30 - Tea - Pork and rice
18.30 - 22.30 - 20/20/20 gym class - chill in sauna with good book - Snowing hard - didn't risk it.


Remember
- C&H
- Send card for Chris and DS Grandad
- DD for school
- Sort out A&L info
- Transfer money from Business Account into A&L - £550.00
- Send copy of last statement from N/Wide to A&L
- New home card for friend who's just moved
- Transfer money to two Tesco accounts for DH and I for points
- Join Swagbucks
- Ring Alarm company - problems with the S/O
- Send information to N on local hotels
- Transfer money from Abbey to Business Account
- Lightspeed survey
- Set up S/O from Abbey to A&L
- Set up Quidco to pay into my new account
- E-mail D Byrne about exam acceptance

Diet Day
Meusli
Baked potato and salmon
Pork and rice

Monday Mayhem..

Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially! It is Bank Holiday on Monday so some shops are not open.. the big supermarkets are.
Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping.
Have we located stockings?
S&S the kitchen
S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast!
Clean the fridge to accommodate you bounty of food
Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..
Catch up on the laundry .. ironing is tomorrows job!
Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
Change pet bedding and wash blankies etc.. we don't want them putting you off your christmas sprouts!
Dust round the whole downstairs
Do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

scrooge2008

Goals for Daring, Decisive December are as follows:-

Main Focus is the Kitchen:-

"When you create structures for the chaos in your life you free yourself. You free up your time and emotional energy for the good stuff." Dr Joan Minninger.

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" Ruth Babe.

"Let go of the fantasy that you can escape work by procrastinating. There is no path in life that requires no effort. Prepare yourself for making a commitment to your goal by recognizing that there are costs involved in both working and trying to avoid work. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work: even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Clearly, work is required when you decide on a goal, commit to the path, and continually stretch beyond your current abilities toward the goal. But it also takes work to feel unfulfilled and to maintain a list of unachieved resolutions". The Now Factor, Neil Fiore.

- STICK TO BUDGET AND ACHIEVE £10.00 PER DAY CHALLENGE - £310.00
Plan - £139.00/£139.00 Yellow pages, £64.00/£70.00 Mystery Shopping, £8.75/£37.00 Amazon/ebay, £15.50/£30.OO coupons/vouchers, £5.30/£15.00 surveys, 1.83/£40.00 free cash back/clicks, 5000/5000 Tesco points - £50.00 vouchers.

Total this month - £284.38/£310.00

- WEIGHT TO INCREASE TO 11 STONE, BUT NOT AN OUNCE OVER THAT.
Plan - I know that means targeting myself to put on half a stone, but i'm away for a couple of weeks, and don't want to be thinking about dieting, so will be a pig, within reason.

- PLAN EACH DAY AND WORK MY PLAN - POST ON MSE EACH DAY

- COMPLETE KITCHEN
DH has a lot of time off over Christmas, and wants to finish the kitchen, so we will finish it together. This will be the month of the kitchen. I'm tired of seeing it on my list every month.

- FLYLADY
Plan - Hypno's pay yourself £5.00 a day idea for a completed weekday Flylady. My money to be paid into the 'Fabulous Forties, Reward Pot.' I'll decide each morning what is a feasible level to aim at for that day. Weekends off, if £25.00 is hit.
Reward pot - £25.00 - Start properly January 1st 2010.

-NATURE/CULTURE
- Book club book - Louis MacNeice - The Strings are False - Finish this book
- Visit Stirling Castle with Historic Scotland Passes
- One hill walk this month with family - Salisbury Craggs/Arthur's Seat

-DOUBLE MY INCOME IN 2010 CHALLENGE - £20,010 in 2010.
Plan - Brainstorm and draw up a draft Business Plan and monthly targets.
Join The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

Today's challenges

08.30 - 09.30 - Lie in and mooch on MSE - Wash 1 on
10.30 - 11.30 - Dress to shoes/Remember list - 2nd wash on
11.30 - 17.00 - Flylady/ironing/final packing - 30 minutes on 30 minutes off
17.00 - 17.30 - Head to airport. All flying down to mums.

Remember
- C&H
- Send card for Chris and DS Grandad
- New home card for friend who's just moved
- Post cards
- Pack Louis book and read it on plane

Diet Day
Meusli
Salad sandwich

Monday Mayhem. - still to be done:-
Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast!
Clean the fridge to accommodate you bounty of food
Dust round the whole downstairs
Do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs
Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!! - Still to be done
Iron yesterdays wash mountain
Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
Mop the kitchen floor!
Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up
Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike
Wednesday Mayhem..
mop the kitchen
Thursday
Set up the video & camera!!! Fully charged and ready to roll!!

Going to turn the red to green today

Need to keep up the momentum today and leave a sparkling house to come back to. Going to work 30 minutes on 30 minutes off throughout the day to keep focused. I'm on my hols so want to keep relaxed and laid back, but not horizontal.

DeeDeeinDooDoo

Well done Scrooge on your exam success:j!!

I would love to hear more about the Tesco vouchers. We don't do too badly from them and hope to use what we have for three trips to France by Eurotunnel in 2010. I'm going to do the savings accounts, hadn't thought about opening one for each of us so thanks for that idea.

Happy Christmasto you and here's to a great 2010!