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Well in April I moved house, and joined my local gym. I didn’t train as planned but I realise I lack the personal discipline to make myself train. Especially when I have the option not to!

So I have moved all of my things into the new house. There have been problems, plumbing & electrical but we are getting these sorted bit by bit. These thing are expensive and I have further expenses to come (such as purchasing Freehold of our property, getting married, buying a Porsche – all to be explained at a later date!!!), but we are financially much better off in a house we own with a mortgage, then just renting.

Don’t get me wrong renting is good, we had a really nice house, but that money was going every month but we had nothing to show for it. Hence the need to purchase our own property.

We moved in during the Easter break, and used a local removals company to do all of the lifting & pulling. This was so useful. Yes it cost money, but we think that this was a wise move as 1) we couldn’t physically move all of our things 2) We were so fried from working we didn’t have time to organise things ourselves. The removals company were excellent and did a fantastic job.

Once we were in we had problems such as broken washing machines and leaking showers and dodgy electrics. Almost all of which are sorted now.

Here are my current priorities:

1) to go to the local gym 2-3 times per week
2) to completely de-wheat my diet
3) to start growing my own vegetables in the garden
4) to keep costs low by going cheap

These are my top 5 things to try in May. Lets hope I can be more successful then my Easter resolutions!

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I plan to post everyday over the next 2 & 1/2 weeks. I am in a really good mood today as I have 17 days off work. I have several things going on, work is hard. But that’s my job I can’t complain. It pays the bills.

I want to focus on the fitness side and also get everything sorted financially too.

We move house next Tuesday, and probably won’t have full internet access until Friday. I will however post from my phone so I can keep this blog updated.

Some of the things I am working on:

2 weeks of Crossfit.
Run & Ride Sequencial days
Clean Zone Diet
No hardstuff
Organise “special” joint project
Organise thoughts for personal project

After all that I need to catch up on school work and also relax, decorate the new hobbit hole.

Current amendments:
No hardstuff
Regular exercise
no hard feelings

Current reading list:
The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdles
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: A Spiritual Classic
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality

About The Resilience Factor

“The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.”

This book is interesting, it gives you several self diagnosis tyepe quizzes to complete, of which I completely failed and seem to be a snivelling shell of a man, who can’t say boo to a goose or take any sort of pressure. Not my own opinion of course, but disturbing all the same. Actually, it might have been my mental arithmetic skills, when I added up all the scores but ho hum!

The book then goes on to describe how to try and deal with situations that test your resilience, one thing that I am trying to do is work on my ABC’s.

A – dversity
B – eliefs
C – onsquences

I take from this that all adverse situations are a test of my beliefs in my self and the consquences of giving in to anger, is to be further suffering and problems later. A lot like Karma.

Recent purchases
Aside from the hobbithole. I have also updated all of my bike kit. I have a bought a lock to lock up my bike at work, and also patches and tools. I also need a new back tyre and chain cleaner then I am set for bike kit.

Saving ideas
Equal parts debt clearance and savings for projects.
Leaving cash & cards at home to stop spending.
Shopping for food online and limited budget at budget shops (Lidl & Aldi).

Overall, as usual big things are afoot, but if I am resilient and strong things will happen and keep happening. That’s all I can expect from this crazy world!

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