Continuous improvement Archives

30Mar 2021 by The Roamer 3 Comments

2020 slogan: Results may vary, 2020 goals & year review

Continuous improvement, Yearly Review Series

Did you accomplishing anything last year? Did your 2020 Goals see any change? People lost jobs, became default teachers, had the opportunity to spend more time with kids. Canceled travel. Finally had time to dedicate to a hobby or new interest. Pretty much, results may vary, should be the slogan of 2020. Making Goals for next year is an act of courage. While we all lived through the rollercoaster of 2020 . We all had a different ride, didn't we? Results may vary. We traveled to California in the end of 2019 and into 2020 January, so happy for that. We got to see family right before everything fell apart. 2020 YEAR REVIEW My 2020 goals. I set them before I knew what would happen. We had just moved to…

09Feb 2021 by The Roamer No Comments

020 Resistance & Relationships

Continuous improvement, Podcast, Shownotes

What do you do when you get stuck on a project? How do you better connect with people? Hey Changemakers in this episode of Her EnterpRISE podcast we are masterminding Melissa's challenges. You have probably been there too. You are so close to the finish line then suddenly everything is challenging. Everything becomes a mountain to climb. In todays episode Melissa asks for help in overcoming these challenges. Listen in to learn along with her. Listen Powered by RedCircle Apple - Google podcasts - Spotify - YouTube or your favorite player. What is a Mastermind? A mastermind is a group of people who are all striving to get to where you are going, or are already there. Where challenges are revealed openly, experiences are shared and feedback is given honestly. For us that…

05Jan 2021 by The Roamer 4 Comments

015 Business Growth through Experimentation with Jillian Johnsrud

Continuous improvement, Podcast, Shownotes

Jillian Johnsrud is on the podcast today! She has taught so many people how to go deep and figure out what they want. She runs a successful online business and has been work optional for several years. She is in the FIRE community and so much more. Nicole, Kelly and I have all paid to mentor under her at different times. We have gained lots of value from knowing her and we hope you do too. Listen Powered by RedCircle Apple – Google podcasts – Spotify – YouTube or your favorite player. (more…)

31Dec 2020 by The Roamer 1 Comment

014 Setting 2021 Goals and Strategies for success!

Continuous improvement, Podcast, Shownotes

2020 has kind of been a crapshoot. Hopefully you've had some good mixed in with all the chaos of the last year. Making goals for next year perhaps feels a bit odd given the last year. We want to talk about it anyways. Even if its just looking at that first quarter of the year. In this episode of Her EnterpRISE podcast we are going to talk about the tools that helped us continue to move forward this last year. No matter how miniscule it felt. They helped us and we hope they help you too. Listen Powered by RedCircle Apple - Google podcasts - Spotify - YouTube or your favorite player. (more…)

30Dec 2020 by The Roamer No Comments

2019 Goals Review

Continuous improvement, Finance, Yearly Review Series

Its almost time to do a 2020 year review but I never finished 2019. Here is what I wrote back in March but am just publishing now. So much is going on right now. Life is wild. Seriously only 3 months into 2020 and the world shuts down. Our family is finally getting into a flow so here I am wrapping up 2019 by reviewing our goals. This is more for me. I need to revisit last year since this years goals are getting derailed with all the craziness. 2019 Goals Review 2019 (17 Goals) Career, Relationship, Financial, & Lifestyle Find Job work 3-4 hrs /day from 12-4pm ( pays more than $10/hr.)Find 10 Speaking gigsAppear on 12 podcastsRecord my own podcast/ YouTube Re-launch blog with email list ( new…

06Oct 2020 by The Roamer No Comments

008 Overcoming Decision Fatigue

Continuous improvement, Podcast, Shownotes

Powered by RedCircle Listen here or at Apple, Google podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite player. In this episode of Her EnterpRISE podcast, Melissa, Kelly and Nicole talk about the extra mental load women often have to carry. Family activities that drain you, extra obligations, and second guessing. They answer the following questions: What decisions are you choosing to just not make? How are you cutting them out?What is the 5-3-1 rule?What it helps you decided?How does second guessing add to the struggle? Quick peek at whats in the episode: Melissa kids are 7 & 12 , Her 12 year old can cook oatmeal. So she delegated cooking breakfast on oatmeal day to her kids. Kelly has 2 different lists to feed greater goals: "One for when I'm brain dead, other is for creative…

08Feb 2017 by The Roamer 4 Comments

January Expenses and the uber frugal month wrap up

Continuous improvement, Maximizing money

What do the uber frugal month challenge and our January spending have in common? Only that they happened on the same month. So peek through to see our uber frugal month challenge results. How much did we save? How much did we spend? and what was our honest opinion. Finally, whether we think it's right for you. So lets hop to it.. (more…)

09Jan 2017 by The Roamer 6 Comments

Net Worth Update : Our growth in 2016

Continuous improvement, Finance, Saving

Hey Traveling Wallet readers, It's net worth update time. When I first posted my net worth out for the world to see, I wasn’t so sure how I felt about it. I'll be honest I'm still a bit paranoid about the whole thing. It’s probably not a surprise that I feel like I am leaving myself a bit exposed. While I am not sharing my net worth here monthly I do track it regularly. Finally, I decided that giving a yearly snap shot was probably not so bad. (& since Mr. Roamer is on board, then all engines go) Today I will be sharing the growth we saw in the last 12 month period. Sometimes, a year can just fly by, but it turns out 365 days is a lot of time…

06Jan 2017 by The Roamer No Comments

Uber Frugal Month Challenge, Well Why Not?

Continuous improvement, Finance

Happy New Year Traveling Wallet Readers! It is officially 2017 and it's time to use that new years motivation to tackle exciting tasks. This month the Roamer clan is participating in the Frugalwood's Uber Frugal month challenge. When Mrs. Frugalwoods first mentioned it, I was intrigued. But because we are trying our hand at travel hacking. Or credit cards rewards, I wasn't sure we would be participating. Our 3 month deadline to meet spending is Jan 14. That is 14 days, where we would be more worried about spending rather then saving. But we (more…)

13Nov 2016 by The Roamer 2 Comments

Surviving 1 year of colorful capsule wardrobes, and cutting my wardrobe by 47%

Continuous improvement, Minimalism

The traveling wallet is our journey through many of life's facets. That's why I like to cover a few main topics here on the blog: travel, money, family and minimalism. This post is for those interested in minimalism. In this case creating a minimalist wardrobe and purging the items that just hung around. This year I completed a whole year of living with capsule wardrobes. If you don't know what they are, it's when you remove everything from your closet and pick only some of your clothes to live with for 3 months. In my case I choose to hover around 38 items. It included: tops, bottoms, and shoes. In the end I created 4 capsules to cover the whole year. After the experiment I can say its a great gate…

12Jul 2016 by The Roamer 6 Comments

2016 mid year goal review

Continuous improvement, Yearly Review Series

Goals you either hate them or you love them. For me goal setting is what kept me on track once I got to university and had to be responsible for myself. With no parents around to make sure I did my homework and drank my milk I had to figure out a system. Back in university I would set goals every semester but now I simply set them at the beginning of the year. Goals are kind of like resolutions except they are less wishy-washy... Ever since then the habit has stuck because I have seen results. This year I decided to try something new for my yearly goals. (more…)

24May 2016 by The Roamer 4 Comments

Capsule Wardrobe Experiment Update

Continuous improvement, Minimalism

It's not a new story to open up your closet and find nothing to wear. I hate to admit it, but I was just like that. I was so frustrated once I even posted it on Facebook. I received a flood of comments, full of sympathy, so many of my female friends could relate. Had they been standing next to me I'm sure I would have seen their heads nodding up and down. Woe is us. Last year after connecting with the minimalist movement I learned about something else. Capsule wardrobes. When I first started my journey into capsule wardrobes all I knew was that it promised I wouldn't open up my closet and feel like I had nothing to wear. It was going to solve that problem. So I…

01Feb 2016 by The Roamer 4 Comments

Trust the system

Continuous improvement, Debt Destruction, Freestyle

Systems What does that mean anyway? It means a set path. Following steps. That if you do A it will lead to B and then C. But I am having trouble with this one. See I'm taking an online course. Or should I say retaking it because last time I got stuck... Lost momentum and then stopped. Trust the system I said to myself after watching the video. What the heck does that mean anyways? (more…)

17Jan 2016 by The Roamer 4 Comments

2015 goals: year end review

Continuous improvement, Finance, Yearly Review Series

I started off the year taking a big bite with my goals. But that's me, I always think I can move mountains and 2015 was no different. The year started with me taking on 20 goals . To which I promptly added 4 more once I had printed them out on paper. (I always seem to forget something before I press print.) But more then halfway through the year I had to admit that I just wasn't feeling some of the items I had written down. (more…)

05Oct 2015 by The Roamer 6 Comments

Weekly Pain & Gain: FinCon +

Continuous improvement, Finance, Weekly Pain & Gain

Pain So I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry I've fallen off my consistent posting schedule. agh! I was doing so good too. Lately I missed a lot of posts, which sucks because it was my goal to have 1 post a week . It's my fault I fell off the horse. But below is the reason why. Excuses, Excuses , Excuses I recently attended FinCon ( financial bloggers conference) for the first time and what can I say I needed some time to recoup and make up for all the family time I missed. Also I needed to make time to process all the info that I got at the conference. It was awesome but also very overwhelming. I have to make a game plan because when…

12Jul 2015 by The Roamer 6 Comments

capsule wardrobe challenge

Continuous improvement, Monthly Challenge

Challenges really seem to put a smile on my face and I'm excited to try something new, taking a 3 month capsule wardrobe challenge but blending multiple ideas and inspirations. In case you don't know a capsule wardrobe is a limited number of items that you mix and match to make multiple outfits. How to Start the Process for a Capsule Wardrobe So clearly we are going to need to pick our items, but it isn't as simple as picking some items out of our closets. Most of us have items in multiple places and maybe even in storage(bins). Well at least I did. So I used some of my knowledge of 5S principles to get me started. The first step is... Take all the clothes out of everywhere you store…

11Jun 2015 by The Roamer 6 Comments

5S : Continuously Improving your living space

Continuous improvement, Counter Culture, Minimalism

Maybe you're new here. Maybe I just haven't talked much about work. ( why would I? after all I am here to try and escape it) yet with my avid distaste for corporate schedules and time restrictions even I have to admit I've learned quite a bit. Welcome to Lean. My trade for most of my working career was in Lean Manufacturing, also known as Industrial Engineering, or Continuous Improvement. Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't. In a nutshell my job was to analyze processes and remove waste. Removing waste is very important in a business. Its what keeps you profitable. Yet what really amazed me as I learned more was how these philosophies and their application were so widely applicable. Even at home. I've read finance blogs…

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