I’m revamping this post for the Thrifty Thursday link up at Living Well, Spending Less which you can find here.
A few months ago, I was asked by a close friend to help him get his life in order. Since I had known him for years, I could easily identify the things that were keeping him from being happy. ANYONE can go through this process for themselves though and make a boot camp schedule for one month to change their life. It takes 28 days to establish a routine.
The weaknesses that I identified in his program are as follows:
(Keep in mind- You need to be brutal here- I happen to adore this friend, but I’m not going to help him by telling him he has no problems. Be just as hard on yourself)
1. Lack of appreciation for money and what it can do. Failure to prioritize his financial wants.
2. Addiction to XBOX games, and online friends. He would stay up until 5 or 6 in the morning playing online with his friends and sleep all day. If he needed to take the night off to do something, his online friends would give him a hard time and pressure him to cancel to play.
3. Disorganization that creates hardship, i.e Can’t cook because he hasn’t done dishes, or grocery shopping.
4. Lack of motivation to go to the gym.
5. Feelings of failure, lack of accomplishments.
6. Working so much overtime that his life consisted solely of XBOX and work, yet his poor life choices were creating an endless cycle where he still has no savings.
7. Alienation, or lack of a social circle. (except me and my husband, obviously).
*Many of these things impact each other, the solutions work in the same way. Most people fail at implementing a program because they try to implement only one change and don’t understand that several things that interact need to change at once in order to be effective. (i.e- you can’t cook regularly, if you haven’t established a routine to do dish washing, a routine to do grocery shopping, and a routine to plan menu’s.)
This is the BOOT CAMP Schedule that I designed specifically for him. Each week has goals to focus on, and each day has routines to establish.
Nikki says
I so need a roadmap like this for getting life back on track after my divorce. Was thinking I could literally follow the steps you laid out but am so bummed the post got cut off at the end. Is there anyway you could send me the post in its entirety?