New Year's Resolutions

[ferret_kitty]

Everyone has them, many people do not succeed in achieving them, at least not to their satisfaction. To that end, theferrett wrote a very thoughtful post about [the necessity of failure in New Year's Resolutions and in changing your life in general]. And he's right: if you expect yourself to achieve something perfectly, you'll never get it done, because

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[welladjustedrob]

"if you expect yourself to achieve something perfectly, you'll never get it done, because you'll use perfection as an excuse not to do it."

reminded me of this:

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html

[ferret_kitty]

That guy's great. Thanks.

I'm not a Ramsey-ite, but...

[silantro]

I've been snowballing since graduation (high-to-low interest order, though, not low-to-high amount). It can be hard, but it's also fun! I like to imagine that I'm smashing my student loans with a sledgehammer.

Re: I'm not a Ramsey-ite, but...

[ferret_kitty]

Well, fortunately for me, the low-to-high amounts mostly correspond to the high-to-low interest rates, although that is another good way to think about it.

Hooray for snowballing, and smashing student loans with sledge hammers.

Re: I'm not a Ramsey-ite, but...

[silantro]

Mine didn't correspond, but since they were both over $10K and close in amount to begin with, I figured it wasn't worth the psychological boost to pay the littler one off first, since paying it off would still be a few years away.

But yes. Godspeed! ^__^

[glorgana]

Yay for movie recommendations! I had kinda meant to ask you about the site, since it seemed to slow down, but I was busy on the holiday too :-)