Bills bills bills
Ugh. It's April and 'tis the time for bills apparently. Usually when this time came around I'd be fine, but with a growing amount of expenditure coming up for me this year, I have to admit that it's made me a bit nervous around my financial situation.
The whole point of this blog is to tell you about what's going on in my life - where my head is at a point in time, and my journey from corporate lawyer to massage therapist/energy healer. Obviously whilst I will write about the good things, it seems unfair and against my ethics to not write about the crap that I feel as well because we all have these doubts!
Whilst I'm excited of the pending change in my career choices in the next 2 months or so, I can't help but feel a bit worried about what is in store for me in terms of the monetary side of things, and also about the "how am I going to do this transition"? Add to that the impatience of "Can I just do it already because I'm really sick and tired of this stupid legal job" and you have pretty much a good idea of where my mind is at.
Last week I went on a course and mid-way signed up for a retreat in Adelaide. This means I still need to buy flights and pay for my accommodation which is a couple of hundred bucks. In addition to that, I've been slapped with the normal bills - water rates, electricity bills, etc for my current apartment, and then received a nice $600 bill for the crazy council rate for my investment property up in Qld! OUCH. MM and I have agreed to go to Deepak Chopra in July which means it's another $500 odd to spend and that doesn't include flights. Accommodation for me is free thank goodness - I have a lovely mate who will put up with me for 3 days :)
3 days ago, as I was going to sleep, I put these worries and fears in front of AA Michael and God. I basically was saying "These are my issues right now - give me the strength to trust, and also give me signs that allows me to move in the right direction to help me with these concerns".
Two days ago, I got the feeling that I needed to get off my ass and resolve my credit card situation. I had refinanced my home loan to another bank and still had my credit card from the previous bank. In addition, I had kept a 28 degrees card that I had applied for purely for use in my travel overseas to Europe given the great exchange rate. I also had another credit card (which I have had for YEARs as there as no annual fees) with the current bank so I decided I would hold onto that. I ended up phoning up my current bank and asked them what credit cards they had where I could use it to get points and ended up applying for that one (the annual fee was waived because I'm eligible for that due to my home loan package). After that, I spent a painful 1/2 hr with the old bank closing my other credit card, and closed my 28 degrees credit card. Now I bank with the ONE bank and I have a card that I can use to earn points - yay!
I also started looking how I was spending money. My foxtel was quite expensive, and I had only bought it for the F1, which I rarely watch now. I also separately had mobile broadband with another provider, which only gave me a measley 10 GB per month. I decided to chat to my friends about naked DSL and was researching it. Turns out for the amount I pay for Foxtel I can get a pretty good deal on naked DSL. However, after chatting to another friend, he convinced me to get a phone and DSL bundle for the same price but with unlimited data and the modem was free. I haven't phoned up yet but as I actually am an existing mobile customer with this company who I'm planning to get the package with, I'm hoping they'll do me a favour and waive the set up fee! This or something better God! <-- Manifesting 101 hahahaha.
As a side note, I had been thinking about doing this with my internet - consolidating the expenses for a while now - and obviously if the "thought" is a recurring thought, I better act on it so that the Universe can start answering my other prayers!
Who knows what will happen - but it'll be interesting no doubt. Now to just go and manifest that money to pay those above bills and more!
The whole point of this blog is to tell you about what's going on in my life - where my head is at a point in time, and my journey from corporate lawyer to massage therapist/energy healer. Obviously whilst I will write about the good things, it seems unfair and against my ethics to not write about the crap that I feel as well because we all have these doubts!
Whilst I'm excited of the pending change in my career choices in the next 2 months or so, I can't help but feel a bit worried about what is in store for me in terms of the monetary side of things, and also about the "how am I going to do this transition"? Add to that the impatience of "Can I just do it already because I'm really sick and tired of this stupid legal job" and you have pretty much a good idea of where my mind is at.
Last week I went on a course and mid-way signed up for a retreat in Adelaide. This means I still need to buy flights and pay for my accommodation which is a couple of hundred bucks. In addition to that, I've been slapped with the normal bills - water rates, electricity bills, etc for my current apartment, and then received a nice $600 bill for the crazy council rate for my investment property up in Qld! OUCH. MM and I have agreed to go to Deepak Chopra in July which means it's another $500 odd to spend and that doesn't include flights. Accommodation for me is free thank goodness - I have a lovely mate who will put up with me for 3 days :)
3 days ago, as I was going to sleep, I put these worries and fears in front of AA Michael and God. I basically was saying "These are my issues right now - give me the strength to trust, and also give me signs that allows me to move in the right direction to help me with these concerns".
Two days ago, I got the feeling that I needed to get off my ass and resolve my credit card situation. I had refinanced my home loan to another bank and still had my credit card from the previous bank. In addition, I had kept a 28 degrees card that I had applied for purely for use in my travel overseas to Europe given the great exchange rate. I also had another credit card (which I have had for YEARs as there as no annual fees) with the current bank so I decided I would hold onto that. I ended up phoning up my current bank and asked them what credit cards they had where I could use it to get points and ended up applying for that one (the annual fee was waived because I'm eligible for that due to my home loan package). After that, I spent a painful 1/2 hr with the old bank closing my other credit card, and closed my 28 degrees credit card. Now I bank with the ONE bank and I have a card that I can use to earn points - yay!
I also started looking how I was spending money. My foxtel was quite expensive, and I had only bought it for the F1, which I rarely watch now. I also separately had mobile broadband with another provider, which only gave me a measley 10 GB per month. I decided to chat to my friends about naked DSL and was researching it. Turns out for the amount I pay for Foxtel I can get a pretty good deal on naked DSL. However, after chatting to another friend, he convinced me to get a phone and DSL bundle for the same price but with unlimited data and the modem was free. I haven't phoned up yet but as I actually am an existing mobile customer with this company who I'm planning to get the package with, I'm hoping they'll do me a favour and waive the set up fee! This or something better God! <-- Manifesting 101 hahahaha.
As a side note, I had been thinking about doing this with my internet - consolidating the expenses for a while now - and obviously if the "thought" is a recurring thought, I better act on it so that the Universe can start answering my other prayers!
Who knows what will happen - but it'll be interesting no doubt. Now to just go and manifest that money to pay those above bills and more!