Habit Formation

• Updated my google sheet budget planner
• At the start of the year I felt that I needed to ramp up my financial security and it came to mind that I needed to acquire a funeral plan at St. Peters and eventually invest in a columbary.  This year I also saw opportunities to invest in online farming and online paiwi.  Then came Impact and Investagrams pledge.  Those are really big chunks of investments in one year that were unplanned but I know that I've prepared financially for them and I know that opportunity knocked so I grabbed it.  We were also given the responsibility of handling the house expenses.  With that I needed check back on my budget and expenses.  After two hours of reviewing I realized that I needed to cut down my savings/investments from 30% to 20% and increase my expense budget from 60% to 70%.  

• Collaborated with my trader support group to learn some basics of trading
• It is fun learning with peers who think the same way as you do in trading.  We talked about trading ideas and reviewed basic charts

• Declutter my desktop to prepare for learning
• My work laptop will be the essential tool for my trading career.  Right timing!  My work account will migrate from HPE to DXC.  I need to declutter my laptop files most especially my desktop.  I also created a wallpaper that says "Financial Freedom" so I will be inspired whenever I look at it

• Downloaded Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard for reading
• I noticed that I lack missed out on downloading one of Mark Minervini's book Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard so I went on looking it up on the internet.  Next step would be to find audiobooks for those trading books that I target to read

• Created a draft of daily course of action items for the month of September
• Since the 90-Day Challenge was not yet posted.  I tried to draft a calendar of activities for the month of September just to get the ball rolling.  Here's how it looks like.  It's not a lot but it is a start