LOOKING BACK

I can say without a doubt that I have been so busy, I haven’t touched anything blog-wise very much. I started dedicating only every other Saturday to working on the blog because:

A) I need a life. I still need my Mommy Day Off per week and if I spend it WORKING on this blog, I’ll burn out.

B) I still love the blog life… but with a full-time job and wanting to also have a full-time life, I need to make decisions about where my time goes.

Right now, my main source of income is my day job and I just focus on that.

My priorities:

1. Family
2. Household Chores and Errands
3. Self-Care
4. Work
5. Blog / Need to sell stuff

So… yeah. #5 doesn’t get much play unless I can balance out other parts of my life. Thus far, it looks a bit like this for percentage of hours dedicated to each:

• Family = 35%
• Household Chores and Errands = 10%
• Self-Care = 5%
• Work = 35%
• Blog / Sell stuff = 5%

I have a whole pile of clothes that I regretfully purchased and now no longer fit into, as I had gone berserk while having Baby Bun at home 24/7 for a year.

Anyway, need to list this stuff. HAVE TO GET IT DONE… just need to.. do .. it…

Someone posed the question the other day:

What is your money goal for 2017?

I was taken aback. No goal was set, I just wanted to work and make money.

I already know what I’ll make, the only real deciding factor is how much will I spend of my income.

I guess my goal is to make it a nice round at least $100,000 addition to my net worth this year.

I’ll be reaching about $600,000 by my count if I can keep under $3000 of expenses each month (EEP! time to cancel that facial…). I want to try and increase my net worth by bigger percentages each month. That could be interesting.

INCOME = $25,701.79

I budget all of my money using The Budgeting Tool (all net proceeds go to charity).

THE BREAKDOWN = $25,701.79

• Day Job = $24,328
• Advertising = $1180.88
• Affiliate = $163.67
• Products = $29.24

Save. Spend. Splurge. Products sold and counted as net revenue (after fees), include:

• The Investing Tool
• Book: How to start a blog and make an extra $1000 a month
• Book: How to invest your money forever (U.S. & Canada versions available)
• Wanderlust Scarves –  Silk habotai made and printed here in Montreal, Canada. Each scarf is $55 USD including free shipping worldwide.

EXPENSES

TOP 5 EXPENSES

NET WORTH = $535,874.76 +$24,731.11 or an increase of 4.84%

NET WORTH FROM PAST 12 MONTHS = $535,874.76 or an increase of +$24,731.11 or +4.84%

Well at least it is going in the right direction — up. It kind of gets boring in a sense when I work.

The only thing that makes it interesting is by HOW much my net worth rises each month. For now, it’s pretty much confirmed it will be $600,000 at the end of the year.

DIVIDEND INCOME = $674.40

BABY BUN’S NET WORTH = $20,584.94 or an increase of +$1456.14 or +7.07%

All of Baby Bun’s investments are looked at in less than 4 hours a year, and the tool used is here: The Investing Tool with this strategy Investing Like a Boss — Very little work for a big reward.

LOOKING FORWARD

Work! AND WORK SOME MORE. And make bank.