My 30 Day Challenge for the month of September is a spending freeze involving no spending outside of the necessities. I will confess that I have a shopping habit. It's not for clothes or decoration or even anything big, but I still shop for a lot of stuff. There was a time when Amazon was delivering multiple times a week. As I looked around my house, there was too much stuff. Things that were duplicated, things we weren't using, things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but never were implemented...I felt smothered. Add to that that money is tight right now...and I wanted to see if I could do a spending freeze. Read on to hear more about the rules and what I hope to gain.

I spent a month putting things away immediately - and found that not only were things neater, but my procrastination and stress went down too!

Podcasts are a great way to get information for a busy person. It's like blog articles in audio - you can listen on your commute, while washing dishes, weeding, exercising and more. Today we'll look at what podcasts are and how I listen to them.I discovered podcasts with my first MP3 player over 10 years ago. I was frustrated with commercial radio, and public radio often left me depressed. I had tried listening to books on tape, but they were long and I often lost track of the plot because of the time between my listening. Enter podcasts, and my viewpoint changed.

What's a great way to avoid procrastination and clutter? Touching things once. My 30 day habit for August of 2019 will be exactly this: training myself to complete little things so I don't have piles of unfinished tasks everywhere. Read more about this challenge and join me.

I spent a month working through a life reboot. I found that it was useful in many ways...but that at the same time I needed to recover from a hard-drive crash of life rather than the stuffed memory that required a reboot.