Hello Sophisticated Spenders!
Winter is here and I’m SO not ready for it!
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Time to update my monthly stats and goals!
Here are some numbers from October:
Readership:
In October we had 759 views. That’s down from 1,006 views in September. My blog is suffering! I can’t explain the lower numbers.
Twitter followers: 516 (an increase of 19)
Facebook page likes: 226 (increase of 2)
Side Hustle Income:
Blog: $0! (Same as last month, and the month before that)
Zumba/Insanity: $850.21 All fitness income is going into a separate account for now. Not sure what I’ll do with the money at this point in time (This money is burning a hole in my pocket. I am dying to spend it!)
eBay: $0 I failed at eBay because I did not list anything.
Update on goals:
1: Smart Menu Planning Challenge. Click here to read about my smart meal planning challenge. FAIL! This was a partial fail. I cooked a new meal on Sunday and it was very good. Problem is, by Wednesday I was tired of eating the same food and was not in a cooking mood. I went to happy hour a few times and bought lunch at work. But I managed to somehow stay under budget. So that’s technically not a fail because I didn’t break my budget.
2: Take Fitness photos! One of my Insanity students is a photographer. I hope to get some professional fitness photos taken sometime soon. FAIL! I may table this goal until I am serious about getting my professional fitness life together.
3: Reading! I need to cancel some of the magazines that I do not read. I’m not quite sure how I am subscribed to so many. But I will get this under control in October! PASS! I read around 5 or 6 magazines last month. I will knock out more reading this month too. I did fail at canceling the magazines that I don’t like.
4: Time management! This is a new goal. I need to spend 2-3 hours per day on something-anything! I need a consistent schedule.
5: Blog Updates! (new) I need to figure out why my numbers are decreasing. I will spend at least 5 hours per week trying to figure that out!
6: Newsletter! I have been “writing” a newsletter since Jan. I hope to finish it this year. I’m aiming for only 2 pages but it’s been pretty tough! FAIL! I did not look at said newsletter in October.
7: EBay! (new) I will follow the lead of JMoney from Budgets Are Sexy and list 1 item per week. I will set a reminder in my calendar to list an item on Fridays. I’m not sure why he picked This day of the week but I will jump on board asap!
Net worth! (new) I calculated my net worth. As of October 2014, I’m somewhere in the neighborhood of $53,000. That really doesn’t say much. But I will break that number down in a future post!
What are your goals for November? Did you accomplish all of your October goals? Will you list 1 item on eBay per week with me?
I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!
