Going green has the future and this yacht proves you don’t need to give in any convenience.
This is the future, and I sign the petition to the Dutch government to get 100% clean in 2050 at .nederland2050. Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut, has this incredible vision .
We need a paradigm shift, with innovative creative solutions we can make a cleaner and more comfortable way of living.
I’m now re-listening to David Allen’s “Getting Things Done“, I got this audio book from a colleague of mine about a year ago. And i setup a website, to manage my todo list and my tickler folder. Actually when I now look at the progress I made since a year ago, it is completely different. Every day my email box is empty. And I’m processing the stuff. The only one that’s not always empty is my physical inbox. But that I try to empty once every 1 or 2 weeks.
So if you are messed up with a lot of stuff in your life, try to read or listen to David Allen’s Getting Things Done and put a system in place that works for you.
Today I just setup some auto-pilot payments towards debt payments and saving. I used to do manual payments from my Company to my private account. I planned to pay myself a fixed monthly payment just before I do my rental payment and debt payment. And the rest should be enough to life for in the month. I removed my credit card and any credit on my checking account.
Today I found out the bank has a nifty variable auto tranfer feature: You can transfer money to your savings account depending on your checking account balance. Every week everything above 500 Euro is transferred to my companies savings. This will protect my money from accidental withdrawels in case my bank card is stolen or skimmed. And I don need to think about paying myself anymore, and the excess money I earn will be put into my financial reserves…
On the 1st of April I visited a lecture of the famous Marketing Guru Seth Godin and I made some sound recordings you can find here:
Seth Godin Linchpin @ Flanders DC and Seth Godin Linchpin @ Flanders DC Q&A session
I was inspired by Seth Godins post about credit and I discovered the site of Dave Ramsey. The last few days I read some of the web site and listened to some of Dave’s work on youtube and I got inspired. Just today I made a decision: I do not want more credit, I do not want to have more debt. So I cut our credit cards in pieces. From today onwards I only pay as I go.
And for my creditcard payment needs for e.g. websites, I applied for a prepaid creditcard (in the U.S. a.k.a. debit card) from Medius.
This is my first step in My Total Money Makeover