Fit and Frugal

I am a young(ish) professional just on the cusp of something really amazing. I am buying my own house and trying to get fit. These two things are not directly related nor are they completely separate. They are just my 2 most important  goals in life.

I have written a few blogs in my time, blogs about teaching, blogs about fitness, but never a blog about fitness and finance. So, as I like a challenge, here it is, my attempt to be a blogger who blogs about fitness and finance.

Actually, there is a link between these 2 goals. Discipline. Something I have always tried to have, and something I deal with on a daily basis as a teacher.

Yes, I can discipline school kids, but can I be disciplined with myself?

This is after all one of my biggest difficulties, making myself do things. Sometimes these things do not always seem to have immediate value (work, emptying the bins) but they really do. If I can get my work out of the way > I can have the rest of the night to myself, and so with the bins. If I empty the bins now, I don’t have to do it until it is full again.

Inevitably these two situations do re-occur regularly (along with another 200 things I have to do), so I think there must be some strategies that I can develop to deal with re-occuring but pretty horrible tasks.

I am reading around alot of different topics at the minute, to show a little of my research I will list some here:

• Goal setting
• Saving money
• Creating routines
• Beating procrastination
• Writing clearly
• Using time well
• Nutrition
• Exercise and mood
• Sleep
• Resistance training
• Mortgages
• Life Assurance

There are other topics, but these are the most forth-coming in my mind right now.