I’m gonna try a 2-week no spend stretch
It’s gonna be an experiment. I’m gonna be transparent and share that I have a bad spending problem. It’s poor impulse control and it’s something I want to badly change. It just occurred to me today that even though I have good intentions to cure my spending habit, I don’t even try to set myself up for success. Just quit cold turkey and hope for the best and obviously, it hasn’t been working out.
I’ve been feeling a bit out of control of my finances lately, which transfers to feelings of loss of control over most of my life. I don’t know why it turns into that but it does.
So to combat that I want to try this experiment. Just today for two weeks. I’ll make sure to make my own food and bring them with me. That’s right, I have no problem cooking but if I leave it at home when I have to be outside the rest of the day, it defeats the purpose sighs.
I’ll also try to limit access to my social medias and in order to help with that, I’ll be reading more. I scroll when I’m bored and I’m never bored when I read. So reading it is.
I already have the other triggers managed (lack of sleep and stress) so here’s to hoping it works out. Fingers crossed. Two weeks is a short time and a long time. I’ll post updates if I can on how it goes.