Blog every day of June

Fair warning to those who read my blog from afar – I am joining a group of my Twitter friends (mostly librarians) who challenge each other to blog every day of June. Since I currently only post once every week or so, and stick to posts about my current attempts at self-improvement, this is going to be a real challenge for me. The first thing I will need to do is widen the range of topics I blog about: even I don’t have thirty bad habits to discuss

If you’d like to follow everyone’s blogs you can search Twitter for #blogjune and while you are doing that I’ll go think up some good blog posts. “The magical alchemy of porridge” perhaps, or “What you can learn about a business from the number of FAQs on their website”.

Or possibly you can save us both by suggesting something better for me to write about…

Yet another self improvement plan

If I manage to keep this blog updated regularly this year I hope it will show me actually succeeding with some (or all) of my self-improvement plans. I have been trying to get my finances under control for a few months, have been trying to lose weight for a few years and had quite a bit of trouble with both. Over my Christmas break I read Change Anything: the new science of personal success and promptly signed up for a free account at www.changeanything.com.

I am 45 kilos overweight, $15,300 in debt, don’t own a home and don’t exercise or eat well. Clearly I have a habit or two I need to change! So this blog is all about my choices and my habits; how I can make better choices and change bad habits into good ones.

“Not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.” William Wordsworth