Day 20 Take Stock

Day 20

Taking Stock

Friday March 18 2011

Today I am taking stock of everything….My bills per month, income, investments, credit cards, and my favorite Frequent Flyer miles.  Sometimes we get lost in our day to day routine and truly do not know where we stand.  If we are lacking this, how can we plan?  I know I myself have gotten into credit card debt, which I do get miles for, but what use is it to get miles for a free trip to not have money to pay for hotel, food, and other enjoyments?  My goal is to organize, prepping for doing my taxes soon too.  When our mind is cluttered, it is easy to procrastinate because our tasks look massive, but we have to start somewhere.

I look at my cluttered apartment, and know it’s my fault.  I lack energy to deal with things when I get home from work.  My drawers are messy at work, with non-essentials papers.  They pile up.  But when this piles up and we lack energy to clean this, we lack the energy in other areas of our life…friends, relationships, family, health.   In the back of our brains, it’s filled with to dos.  But now my motivation to take charge is returning.  (for further inspirational reading check out “The Energy of Money”

As a tourist, we need to frequently take stock of how much cash do we have, passports, copies of all identifications in case things are stolen, and of course itineraries of flights, car rentals, train passes, and hotel reservations.  This is a definite.  Once while at a Laundromat in Florence, as I switched my wash to the dryer, my credit and debit cards were stolen, along with my drivers license.   Luckily I had copies of all of my identification and my passport was hanging around my neck.  I did not keep things in one place, but separated in case of an event like this.  I had a friend to help me through the next week, until my debit card could get sent fast track to me.  I cannot stress the importance of being on top of everything as you travel, especially to a foreign country.  When you are organized, you are prepared for anything that can come your way.