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One of the things I hear over and over is that for a more satisfied life, one needs to make a gratitude list. I can always use more satisfaction in my life, and so for the new year I have decided to start with a gratitude.

This is the last month of the year, and I decided to firm up the 30 days challenges I had attempted over this year.

It’s the last month of the year, and I was at a loss to choose a single habit. Many of the habits I have tried through my 30 day challenges over the past year needs some reinforcement, so I thought it would be good to spend a month making those habits stronger.

In some cases, I have let things fall by the wayside, and I am looking to restart them. In some cases, it is a matter of making sure that they are happening as often as I can manage, and to challenge myself to do better.

My 30 day challenge of exercising every day is over. See what I learned!

The average American sits for 11 hours a day. That is outside of the time spent in bed sleeping. We are the fattest we have ever been, and our sedentary lifestyle is leading to disease. I've been conscious of these types of numbers for years now, but have been unwilling to do anything about them other than nod and promise myself I would do something in the future. But recently I've had some direct consequences. Enter my November 30 day challenge

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I sit way too much. It's a function of my current job. But I remember the days in the classroom when I rarely sat, and how much better I felt physically. I'm starting to feel pain from a tight hip flexor, and exercise is the only way to ease that so I can sleep.

For my 30 Day Challenge this month, I did a spending freeze. As I talked about when I started it, I wanted to reduce the stuff I was bringing in to the house, and see if could manage to break my spending habit.

It wasn't easy, but I got some great results. Read on for more details.

My 30 Day Challenge for the month of September is a spending freeze involving no spending outside of the necessities.

I will confess that I have a shopping habit. It's not for clothes or decoration or even anything big, but I still shop for a lot of stuff. There was a time when Amazon was delivering multiple times a week.

As I looked around my house, there was too much stuff. Things that were duplicated, things we weren't using, things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but never were implemented...I felt smothered.

Add to that that money is tight right now...and I wanted to see if I could do a spending freeze.

Read on to hear more about the rules and what I hope to gain.

I spent a month putting things away immediately - and found that not only were things neater, but my procrastination and stress went down too!

Podcasts are a great way to get information for a busy person. It's like blog articles in audio - you can listen on your commute, while washing dishes, weeding, exercising and more. Today we'll look at what podcasts are and how I listen to them.

I discovered podcasts with my first MP3 player over 10 years ago. I was frustrated with commercial radio, and public radio often left me depressed. I had tried listening to books on tape, but they were long and I often lost track of the plot because of the time between my listening. Enter podcasts, and my viewpoint changed.

What's a great way to avoid procrastination and clutter? Touching things once. My 30 day habit for August of 2019 will be exactly this: training myself to complete little things so I don't have piles of unfinished tasks everywhere. Read more about this challenge and join me.