16Jan 2017 by The Roamer No Comments
2016 Goals: Year End Review

2016 Goals: Year End Review

Finance, Reading, Saving, Travel, Yearly Review Series
It's January, and you know what that means. Goals for 2016 This past year I decided to try something new. I had read that I could be more focused if I just chose one goal and really bore down on it for a whole month. It sounded interesting and logical. It sounded like I would get more, deeper work done. It was also a way to avoid my natural tendency to overload myself with goals. The year before I had jot down 24. Instead this year I could only choose 12 goals for the year.  (more…)
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02Jan 2015 by The Roamer 6 Comments
2014 Goals Reviewed

2014 Goals Reviewed

Finance, Parenthood, Reading, Yearly Review Series
How did I do with my 2014 goals? [caption id="attachment_740" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Goals Before 2014 Started[/caption] [caption id="attachment_741" align="aligncenter" width="225"] paper reminder barely surviving a year of annotations[/caption] I am going to break them down. But the 3 major ones I am going to post on individually. Which ones are the 3 major ones? Well the ones that pertain to this site more specifically. Relationships (Parenthood and family time), Travel, and Finances. I want to go into more detail for these 3 areas so I will post on them individually. My Finances will reveal our net worth for the first time(WHAT?) So stay tuned.  Now lets cover all my other goals. Spiritual FAIL! yes I did not really make an effort to get these done. That is why you see…
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20Dec 2014 by The Roamer 4 Comments
Weekend Wanderings #2: The Easy Life

Weekend Wanderings #2: The Easy Life

Counter Culture, Parenthood, Reading, Weekend Wanderings
Welcome to my weekend wanderings. I'm the Roamer here at Traveling Wallet. I hope you enjoy these videos. I know when you make big goals you often need inspiration and motivation and that's what I hope you'll get here in these segments. Do you feel like life is hard? Are you running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to climb some corporate ladder? So much to do so little time. I often like to ponder such questions. Sometimes I don't have all the words, or know all the right things to say. In these times I'm happy to defer to the experts. In my head I made it a goal to include at least 3 videos for all my weekend wanderings but today's video is so powerful and…
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01Aug 2014 by The Roamer 2 Comments
A love for Reading: Introducing the reading list

A love for Reading: Introducing the reading list

Finance, Reading
When I was young I loved the library, we went often. We would kill hrs there weekly. I got to know the layout really well.  I knew where all the math books were and the music books. I knew the kids section, teen. I knew exactly where to find  Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen king and Mary Higgins Clark. I searched for time travel books and read entire series ( Animorphs and A Wrinkle in Time). It was amazing, I loved it. Somewhere along the way I was given a sheet to track all the books I was reading. I liked that too, it was great to go back to it. I still have it. A year or 2 ago it made me sad to think I hadn't read in so…
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