When I get paid and I sit down to start paying bills I am always somewhat excited and stupidly optimistic. By the time I’ve scheduled the last payment I often wonder how I’ll make it to the next check. Perhaps that’s overly dramatic, since I always seem to manage, but since a goodly potion of my bills land toward the beginning of the month I always wipe out that whole check plus more.

So I’ve been wanting to get a bit more serious about budgeting. I want a better grasp on what’s coming in and what’s going out. To this end I am going to make a list of projects I would like to accomplish. These are things that will cost me some cash or are finance related. I am then going to put them in a prioritized order and try to start attacking these. I’m not sure if this will help, or just make me feel like I am treading water. We’ll see.

I’m also wanting to try the 101 goals in 1001 days thing.