13/13 on my PT exercises, but today might be a failure. It's my press deadline at work, my boss took the day off for a family emergency, and I've been running a fever on and off since Sunday. So far I did 1 of my 12 exercises. Maybe I can manage half of them and call it a good-enough win?
I ended up managing to do at least half of my PT exercises every single day (focusing on the more important ones). Even though I have bronchitis and I had four out-of-town visitors in the last two weeks and it is a critical time at work and I haven't been able to take a sick day. This has been really tough. But it's no excuses November so I guess I am doing my PT exercises until I drop dead :-P I am going to PT in an hour and I might go to urgent care afterward to make sure I'm not getting pneumonia :-/
Took a little break from the forums, but have enjoyed coming back and reading everyone's updates. Sounds like only Dollar Slice met 100% of their goal - being willing to die rather than fail is very inspirational, DS! (See above)
And what about me? Time for a brief assessment:
I did do some more thrift store clothing shopping after my last post, tried to be a bit more discerning and had a discount code to reduce the price even further. The question of whether I really "needed" all that is a serious one to consider. For sure I needed to assess my wardrobe with a critical eye, as I'm finding it harder to find stuff that totally fits and works for me. After all the shopping, I've weeded some things out, but need to do more. In the final analysis, I certainly bought more than I needed to, but most of what I got will be used and useful, and much of it will replace things that need to be discarded.
I did much better with other spending though. It's hard not to do
any shopping in the lead up to Christmas, if yours is a family that gives gifts. But where I found myself really able to stick to the challenge was in drastically minimizing the dribble spending. The coffee here, quick lunch on the road there. I made my coffee at home even more (such a huge change from a couple years ago, when I'd hit the Tim Horton's drive-thru at least once a day, and often 2 or 3 times!) I took my lunch, or dinner, or snacks with me more. I didn't pop by the convenience store for junk food on the way home. And so on.
So on the whole, I'd say that November was a moderate success. And I think I saw a "Deliberate December" thread, so you can probably find me there next month!