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So today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of The Dolla Thug Blog!! Wooo-hooo!
I have a lot to accomplish in this second year coming up but given the recent Daylight Savings Time situation, I thought it would be good to reflect back on one of my favorite posts and one of the first posts I ever published – OPTIMIZE YOUR 27:
I don’t know about you, but I hate springing forward! I’m fine with falling back, but springing forward is so annoying.
Image courtesy of Rick Trotter.
TIME
Time is the most precious resource we have but we usually don’t realize it until it’s already gone. Losing that one hour HURTS (especially that first day back to work).
168 HOURS IN A WEEK
But it got me thinking…how much of our time is spent paying the bills? For example, at work…thinking about work…commuting to or from work…this can be a fairly depressing revelation. And most of us will remain in this routine until we’re 65!?! I’ve calculated it to about:
- 40% of my total time is work-related
- 33% is spent sleeping (especially weekend catch-up time)…
27% LEFT FOR ME
…And the remaining 27% of my total hours in a week is spent at my discretion doing things that I really want to do (besides sleep), things that I enjoy, and/or doing household chores or grocery shopping.
WASTING YOUR 27
Are you optimizing that precious 27%? Or are you wasting it away watching horrible reality tv (I know it’s not just me!). Continue reading Happy Birthday to DollaThug.com!
This just in!: Dolla Thug has been featured in an article on the Black Weblog Awards website (which I didn’t know existed until a few weeks ago when a friend randomly sent me the link to enter)!
Courtesy of www.blackweblogawards.com
To be clear, I didn’t win an award, BUT I got a “spotlight” entry. Check out the article AND the 2010 Finalists list – there are a lot of Black bloggers putting out great content! If you want to vote for any of the blogs listed, voting ends at midnight TONIGHT (and sadly, Dolla Thug is not in the running since she just found out about this whole thing today!) Hopefully they’ll add a “Personal Finance” category next year for the 2011 Awards and I’ll take ‘em DOWN!…
One of my favorite personal finance bloggers, the Financial Samurai, began the Yakezie Challenge to promote great personal finance blogs and build up the blogging community. The objective is for any given blog to take note of their current “Alexa Ranking” and work steadily for 6 months to reach the top 200,000. As of tonight, Dolla Thug is officially participating in the challenge! My current Alexa ranking is 2,175,623…that’s a long way from 200,000 BUT with your help, I can one day get to the top 200,000 and higher! Let’s see where I stand in 6 months by March 1st, 2011 (since Feb 29th doesn’t exist in 2011!) Any progress is good progress. It’s going DOWN!
For the record, I am not a certified financial advisor of any kind and will not be held legally responsible for any misuse of the content of this site.
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