30 day challenge

In February, Matt threw out the idea in the Piggybank series at NLC to do a 30 day spending freeze challenge.  That idea seemed right for Annie and I, so we decided to do it.

So, for the month of March, we did a spending freeze. No spending on extra. That was the goal.

I’d like to say that we stuck with the challenge 100%, but we didn’t.

What we did find out, though, is that it changed the way that we thought about spending money. We found that we were way to lackadaisical about the way that we would spend. I would go to Starbucks or lunch somewhere without thinking about the money that I was spending. Doing the spending freeze forced us to PAY ATTENTION to the money that we spent.

The 30 Day Challenge, more than helping us to save in a month, changed our hearts. It made us look at the way we spent and the way we thought about spending and why we felt the NEED to spend and as those things were revealed to us, it was as though God was able to work on them.

I liked that 30 Day Challenge so much, I’m doing another:

THE NEW 30 DAY CHALLENGE

For the month of April, I’m eating healthy. That’s right, no ice cream every night (just during the 1 alloted time during the week) , no fried food, and no doughnuts on Sundays at NLC. If you know me, you know this is kind of a big deal. I am very disciplined in exercise, but not in eating.

I have a daily menu to help me to stay on track, and I’m going to stick with it through April.

My hope through this is that the reason for my NEED to eat bad stuff will be revealed to me and as that happens, hopefully I will be transformed by God.

If this works like the financial challenge does, there might be something to this.