Nette Life

Like most people, I don’t have a budget and I pretty much live paycheck to paycheck. Sometimes I stay within the limit of my income but there are also times (too often) when I do go over what I earn and have to either use credit or dip into savings (and there isn’t much there to dip either). So I know I have a problem and I know I have to solve it. It’s the getting started that is hard.

Today, while reading my feeds, The Simple Dollar has a great article on how to start a simple budget. I am seriously thinking of putting myself on a tighter budget. Because even though I’ve managed to increase my income, I haven’t increased my savings, only my expenses. I am still living paycheck to paycheck, fearing my money will run out before the next one arrives. I want to get out of that.
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I went home early yesterday because I was feeling a little run down from this cold and so I was able to watch Ellen then Oprah. What a treat! I don’t ever watch Oprah when it comes on since I’m usually at work at that time. If I happen to be up at 1 a.m. when the re-run comes on, then that’s the only time I watch the show.

Anyway, yesterday, they were talking about things that we dare live without. They featured two families who have been living a wasteful lifestyle and dared them to give up their splurges and luxuries for a week.
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I’m sure you’ve heard of Randy Paush. He’s been featured on tv shows and the YouTube video of his going away speech has been making the rounds on the internet for a few months now. He was recently featured on 20/20 or one of those magazine shows and I was again reminded how touched I was when I first watched the video and let his message sink in.

The message is really simple. I wonder why more of us don’t realize it earlier. Most of us probably won’t get see life with the same clarity until we are given a death sentence. But while Randy Paush has been given that deadline, I think he’s been clear on his idea of how to live life long before he got the bad news.

Listen closely to his advice on being a parent to your kids and nurturing that sense wonder in them and maybe awaken it in ourselves.

I like finding inspirational messages like this because it reminds me to get off my lazy butt and start living life fully.

I like using sites like StumbleUpon and Entrecard because I always end up finding interesting new blogs and fun contests. I love entering online contests and have had the good fortune of winning a couple of them. It’s not always about the prizes though, although they can be very good; it’s about finding new blog friends. That’s how I found some of the friends I still visit and visit me to this day, two years later.

I’ve been a little behind on updating my entrecard accounts. I have five of them. So I thought I better do it this morning. When I visit people who have dropped cards on me, I try to see what their blog’s about first before dropping my card. I guess that’s why I’m a little slow on dropping speed. Anyway, I visited one blog which led me to another and guess what I found… a contest!

A Land’s End Allergy Free Pillow is being given away at Healthy Home Blog. It’s very easy to win, all you have to do is leave a comment. If you’d like to increase your chances though, you may want to blog about it like I just did