Continuing the series of republishing the old Art Calendar articles with updated commentary here is the 5th one looking at the power of a wall chart and some things that flow from this. Though I didn’t specifically note it in the original article, leaving it as implied from previous articles, I feel like I should give credit again to the book “Your Money or Your Life” that introduced me to some of these concepts and which goes into further details about them.
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AC4 – Where Does All the Money Go
Here is the next of my old Art Calendar articles with lots of updated notes tacked on. This 4th one is about the way I go about tracking my money in order to have a clear sense of where it is coming from and where it’s going to. Now with a couple decades of hindsight I can say this is one of the most powerful tools I have for understanding myself and keeping the finances in good order. It’s a practice I can strongly recommend!
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Continuing to transfer from my davidhuang.org website, with updated notes, my old financial management articles written for the art business magazine, Art Calendar, here is the second one focusing on your real hourly wage. I feel like this is a very powerful conceptual tool for getting a handle on ones finances while also gaining a deeper understanding of yourself and what you value.
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Very soon I am going to be moving my davidhuang.org website to a new platform and hosting server. It’s not that I really want to do this. It’s more that the software it is running on is SO old, out of date, and no longer supported that it’s going to break as soon as the server gets the update that should have happened many months ago. So I will be rebuilding that site from scratch in WordPress here on the account that is hosting this blog. Unfortunately what that also means is that most of what I’ve built up on the davidhuang.org site over the many years will simply go away and be lost. There is no easy way to transfer it all. I do hope to reconstruct some of the more popular sections as time permits.
Continue reading “AC1 – Making a Living”What’s for Dinner?
What’s for dinner? It seems like a simple enough question, yet the answer to it can have profound impacts on my personal economy, my health, my energy use, and our overall environment, not to mention the living capital of my little homestead. So it’s a question I’ve been putting more thought and effort into, trying to shift my answers with the goal of improving all these elements. I imagine some of you are cringing already, fearing I’m going to break out with some militant screed instructing you that MY diet is the BEST diet and you must follow it too or you’re some morally inferior poopy head. Don’t worry, that’s not me. I feel like what you chose to eat is up to you, just as it is your own responsibility to determine what sort of diet your body functions best on. I’m merely offering this up as information about my personal journey in the realm of food in the hopes it might help you too.
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