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\nPumpkin-carving time!
\n28 October 2007<\/p>\n
\nPumpkin-carving time!
\n28 October 2007<\/p>\n
I lack discipline and willpower.\u00c2\u00a0 I have always lacked discipline and willpower (thus, the seven years it took me to get an undergraduate degree), and it has always annoyed me.\u00c2\u00a0 With discipline and willpower, you can achieve your goals more consistently… and I am very goal-oriented.\u00c2\u00a0 You’d think I’d have more discipline since I am so goal-oriented, but there it is.<\/p>\n
Matt and I have put ourselves into debt — you know, the new American Dream for\u00c2\u00a0our generation\u00c2\u00a0— somewhat due to circumstances but mostly due to our own lack of discipline with money and spending.\u00c2\u00a0 While surfing one day, I was reading someone’s profile, and he described himself as a “recovering consumer.”\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I’m not recovering yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m only on the first step: admit that you have a problem.<\/p>\n
We\u00c2\u00a0would like to move to a larger home for our growing family in a neighborhood with better schools.\u00c2\u00a0 We were both bullied and teased in school, and we’re not keen on our children going to a rough school.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think the elementary school in our area is that rough, but the high school certainly is.\u00c2\u00a0 I hated high school, but that is a different story.\u00c2\u00a0 And I would like my children to enjoy their school years, if possible.<\/p>\n
But we need to get out from under this debt.\u00c2\u00a0 And so we’re back to discipline.\u00c2\u00a0 We have made an aggressive debt-reduction plan, and now it comes to executing it.\u00c2\u00a0 If we stay the course, we can start looking for a new home within two years.<\/p>\n
Developing a new personality trait, though possible, is never easy nor quick.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll see how I come along over the next two years as I try to build discipline… yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pumpkin-carving time! 28 October 2007 I lack discipline and willpower.\u00c2\u00a0 I have always lacked discipline and willpower (thus, the seven years it took me to get an undergraduate degree), and it has always annoyed me.\u00c2\u00a0 With discipline and willpower, you can achieve your goals more consistently… and I am very goal-oriented.\u00c2\u00a0 You’d think I’d have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovering-consumer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}