Comments on: Fat Money

By: Ramona

Ramona — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:53:13 +0000

Julia Cameron beat him to it: “The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size” (Penguin)
The review I read made alot of sense. I doubt I buy the book in order to read her “how to” as I have with her other books. I tend to read the book instead of following the suggestions.
Which was your point about motivating others. We have to somehow find our own motivation to do the right thing(s).
I agree with all you blogged about eating and spending. I remember actually feeling a “hunger” when walking through Younkers knowing I didn’t have $$$$ to buy all the pretty things.

By: kaizerin

kaizerin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:58:52 +0000

Yay, good for you!!

I was very amused by Get Rich Slowly’s post on his 2008 goals. “Lose 40 pounds, save $10K, write book.” Classic!

By: CountessZ

CountessZ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:16:17 +0000

First lunchtime walk taken. Small step for Countess-kind.

By: kaizerin

kaizerin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:54:02 +0000

It’s so hard to stick with it long enough to begin to see results, and once you ‘get it’, it’s hard to share the insight with others in a way that motivates them. I had to get to a point of literally fearing for my life, and now that I see the benefits of letting small changes work over a long time, I would like to be able to just hand over the experiences and mental processes I’ve gone through to others, so they can jump right to the point I’m at without being terrorized into it. But then, I never believed all the people over the years who tried to tell me, did I?

By: Corvus

Corvus — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:13:49 +0000

We’re constantly being sold “instant success” in both of these realms and it feeds into a tendency for an “all or nothing” approach. Taking it one small step at a time, as you say, is really the only way to effect lasting change in just about any system.

By: CountessZ

CountessZ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:02:56 +0000

I know we’ve talked about this correlation before, but I always find it to be a really helpful topic. I’ve been continuing to put off adding in some kind of physical activity and this weekend found myself saying again, “Well, it will be easier to do when I’m in Portland with Kari.” Only, as you say, now is the time.

Corvus and I had such a nice walk yesterday that I said to him we should always take a nice long walk whenever I’m home–weekends, holidays, work from home days. I’ve also been thinking lately that it would be nice to go for a 20-30 minute walk over lunch, maybe three days a week would place it more in the realm of achievable.

Also, pretty soon Wii Fit comes out, and we plan on getting that. When I figure out more what that entails, perhaps I can figure out how to fit that into the routine at that point. There is also some kind of yoga game for the DS that came out in Japan, I should look into that…