How I went cash only for a week and saved money

How I went cash only for a week and saved money The only time I ever have cash is when I know I’m going somewhere that doesn’t accept card; seeing the dreaded sign ‘cash only’ is burden for many Londoners! Having cash, especially change, is not only a nightmare as I’m in fear of losing it in the depths of my handbag or in the hole in my jeans pocket, but it also seems slow and messy. Why would I pay with cash and then wait for my change, when I can tap my card, and be done? Although there are obvious pros to being cash-less, don’t let me fool you, there are cons too. We are all guilty of buying that extra drink at the bar simply because we can or popping into the shop on the way home to get pasta sauce and coming out with the entire store because it is now easy and pain-free to do so. You don’t have to face the reality of what you’ve spent until you check your bank statement later (if you check it at all)! This constant exchange led me to spend way over my budget, so I decided I would use only cash for a week to see how my spending habits would change. I put my card away and started fresh Monday morning with £50 to last me the week. Monday: £50 During the average day, I would buy at least two cups of coffee whilst out-and-about, but not today!   Instead, I did the obvious and had my caffeine fix before I left the house and that was it for the day. You’ll be pleased to learn that I coped, and it was easy! Having to break into a £10 just for a cup of coffee didn’t seem worth it; I became much more aware of spending on the first day just by carrying cash. Monday’s are the busiest day of the week for me, however, so I did buy lunch which cost a fiver. Tuesday, money left: £45 One annoying factor I encountered with going cash-only was when going to pay in a restaurant, it makes everything easier if you can tell your server how much you want to pay on your card and then simply tap. But no, here I am counting my pennies trying to find the exact amount rather than having to wait longer for my change to be given. Admittingly, it made me think about what I was going to eat as again I only had a certain amount of money on me. I, therefore, shared a pizza with my friend and had a coke, spending £10. Wednesday, money left: £35 It is the middle of the week and I had a mid-week slump. It’s rare that I don’t pop into the local shop on my way home to pick up something I probably shouldn’t, the thing I find, though, is that I never leave with one thing. As in most stores, they have the ‘great value’ section, so I went in with simply £1 and that was enough to hinder my craving. Rather than spending the £5+ I usually would, giving myself a small amount of change was the best way to save money! Thursday, money left: £34 Like most of us, the constant temptation of online shopping is always looming when you have a debit card. Making the process easier, online stores now remember your details and all it takes is one click to buy something. Going cash-only, however, stopped me from doing any online-shopping. Although to a certain extent it’s inconvenient if you desperately need an item of clothing, but if you are simply browsing and drawn into sales, then to only have cash is a godsend. I didn’t need to buy anything, and as I couldn’t, I saved a lot! Friday, money left: £34 Friday is probably the most difficult day to only have cash, as Friday night is inevitably pub night! On a typical Friday, the merrier I get, the happier I am with tapping my card (and I never forget bags of Mini Cheddars for the table) and would therefore easily spend £20+. This week, however, I only took £10 cash, which I knew would get me two glasses of house white wine. It is so easy to overspend, especially if you have an overdraft, but going cash-only means you can only spend what you physically have, rather than borrowing from the bank and getting in debt. Saturday, money left: £24 Ok imagine, it’s 11 pm, it’s freezing, and I need to get an Uber home… but no card means no Uber! Although there is the option of a Black Cab, I didn’t have enough in my budget to be spending £20 on travel when I could top-up my oyster with a fiver and still get home safely. Apart from this, I spent £10 in Asda buying food for dinner. Sunday, money left: £9 It’s the end of the week and I have £9 left. Not only have I saved so much that I wouldn’t have if I had been using my card, but I have money remaining! On Sunday I spent nothing as I laid in bed all day watching Friends. Altogether this experience was an awakening to how not only having cash is useful in certain situations, but also it has made me aware how easy it is to waste money now that cards are contactless. Learning to set yourself budgets and making sure that you stick to them is crucial and checking your account balance really makes reality hit. Download Debut  and connect with us  on  Facebook,  Twitter,  and  LinkedIn  for more careers insights.

Whats your ideal career Lets find out! - Margaret Buj - Interview Coach

Whats your ideal career Lets find out! If you’re looking for a new career path this year, you might be wondering what job you are ideally suited for. We’re human, and that means that we’re all different. A job that suits you might not be ideal for someone who hates working in confined spaces. That’s why not everyone is suited to work in an office. So, how do you know which career would suit you the most? Well, you need to look at some of your likes and interests as well as aspects of your personality. Love Interactions? If you love interacting with different people, the ideal career for you is going to be something in customer service. The good news here is that almost every industry that you can think of has some form of customer service built into the model. This gives you a wide variety of different options to choose from? Competitive? There are plenty of jobs where you can stretch your competitive muscle. You don’t have to become an Olympic athlete running around a track. Instead, you can enter the wonderful, high-stress world of sales. Here, you’ll be competing every day against your business colleagues to win the most customers. This isn’t the right job for someone who wants an easy ride. Love Freedom? Or finally, you might just love the idea of having a sense of freedom at work. If that’s the case, the best option would be to take a job on the road. The most obvious answer here is deliveries. By working in deliveries, you can travel to lots of different places. You just need your CDL, and you’ll find everything you need to know about this in the infographic below. Infographic Created By Express CDL Tests

The Importance of a Conducive Environment - Hallie Crawford

The Importance of a Conducive Environment My husband and I went on the Modern Home Tour in Atlanta this weekend. We had a ball. Modern design is right up our alley. We were drooling over these contemporary houses. Right after we came home from the tour, we started talking about how we can change our plans to renovate our attic to reflect a more modern sentiment. Our current house is contemporary inside and reflects our taste, but the homes on the tour were our dream houses-sleek and open, with huge windows that let in a ton of light. I felt right at home in these spaces, like I was outside and very close to nature. The windows were huge! I miss the floor to ceiling windows of our old Chicago condo. From this experience, I remembered how much your home is a reflection of who you are, or should be. I never realized how important space is to our well-being until I married my husband (interior architect), and worked for my dear friend Jane Tompkins on space planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Being in the homes this weekend reminded me of how important our home and work space is to our health in every way. Is your home a true reflection of who you are, or evenwho you want to be? And if not, what changes do you want to make? This goes for your job too. Do you work in an environment thats conducive to your personality and physical desires/needs? One of the components of the satisfying career model I use with clients and in my Career Seekers Teleclass is a Conducive Environment. Here are some questions to help you define your ideal work environment: What types of people do you want to work with? What kind of management style do you prefer? Consider your personality and what kind of environment is conducive to your personality. Do you need a lot of structure, just a little, or none at all? For example, if you are a person who likes things to be organized and have a process to them, you may need to have a more structured environment. Where do you want your office to be located? Do you want to work from home, from an office, or have a mobile situation where you can work from a variety of places? What size organization do you want to work in? Large, small, medium? What do you want the company culture to be like? Atlanta Career Coach

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Why Multitasking Makes Us Stupid, And What We Should Do Instead

Why Multitasking Makes Us Stupid, And What We Should Do Instead Multitasking doesn’t work. In fact, it decreases your productivity by as much as 40%. In addition to lessening your productivity, it also lowers your IQ and shrinks your brainâ€"reducing density in the region responsible for cognitive and emotional control. According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31% of U.S. drivers ages 18-64 report they had read or sent text or email messages while driving within the last 30 days. Worse, a whopping 69% report they had talked on their cell phone. So what’s our stressed-out society to do? One word: singletasking. Here are nine ways to get started: 1. Realize that multitasking is a myth Your brain is incapable of simultaneously processing separate streams of information from multiple tasks. That’s because there’s “interference” between the two tasks, says MIT’s Dr. Earl Miller. So, in actuality, multitasking simply doesn’t exist. What you’re really doing is task-switchingâ€"the technical term for moving very quickly and ineffectively between tasks. You task-switch within tenths of a second, and thereby don’t consciously notice delays. 2. Commit to your choices Singletasking obliges you to do one thing at a timeâ€"excluding any other demands at that moment. This means you must stand firm and genuinely commit to your choices. You can manage your next task after working on the existing one. You don’t have to complete every task all at once, just the current period of time dedicated to it. 3. Discipline your brain How often do you meet someone and instantly forget her name? This indicates that your mind was distracted, that it was preoccupied with something else entirely. The inability to concentrate on a name or conversation is evidence of what I deem SBSâ€"Scattered Brain Syndrome. Singletasking isn’t only about getting things done. It’s also about developing focus. Living in the present will affect the very essence of your life, including work, relationships, and everything else that matters to you. 4. Park extraneous thoughts Singletasking doesn’t require you to discard distracting thoughts. Instead, it provides simple systems to set them aside until you can redirect your mind. One technique is to “park” other ideas in a designated place, such as a notes page on your smartphone, and then quickly return to the current endeavor. 5. Build fences At work, it’s up to you to control your environmentâ€"to “build fences” to keep potential distractions, such as noise and pop-ups, at bay. Rather than blame technology (think your computer and smartphone) or nearby colleagues, take control of your workspace and gadgets. For example, before a conference call, close your door or put a “Quiet” Post-it note outside your cubicle. Mute all chimes, ringers, and pings, and turn off visual alerts and social media messaging. 6. Practice clustertasking Does reading and replying to texts, emails, and social media messages lure you away from bigger, more important projects? Then try clustertaskingâ€"a technique whereby you bunch related tasks into specific segments during the day. At the office, for instance, you could confine your emailing to three segments dailyâ€"when you arrive in the morning, before lunch, and as you prepare to leave for the day. 7. Grow your attention span The average human attention span is eight seconds, reports the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This is one second less than the attention span of a goldfish. That’s rightâ€"a goldfish has you beat. Next time you’re “busy” surfing the Web, ask yourself if you’re really sidestepping solitude and introspection. Try carving out a little time each day to be left alone with your thoughts. 8. Say no early and often. Attempting to be all things to all people is more than unrealisticâ€"it’s a recipe for disaster. It’s perfectly fine, even responsible, not to respond to every request immediately. “No, I can’t right now” is not equivalent to “No, I won’t ever do it.” By saying no, you’ll be free from the constant frustration of half-finished tasks. 9. Ask others to call you out Old habits die hard. From time to time, you’ll almost certainly go back to your old ways, reverting to task-switching. So ask your family, friends, and co-workers to call you out. You may have myriad excuses for an exception. No matter, thank them for their vigilance. Devora Zack, CEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc., is the author of three books, published globally in as many as 25 languages. Her new release is Singletasking: Get More Doneâ€"One Thing at a Time (Berrett-Koehler). An international expert in leadership development, she is an award-winning keynote speaker, consultant, and coach. Visit myonlyconnect.com.

Secrets About Top Paying Resume Writing Careers Uncovered

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6 Social Media Tips & Tools to Help You Land Your Dream Job

6 Social Media Tips & Tools to Help You Land Your Dream Job 6 Social Media Tips & Tools to Help You Land Your Dream JobMake sure your social media profiles support your professional brand, rather than weaken it. TWEETFinding your dream job not only requires the perfect resume and cover letter, appropriate attire for the occasion, and a polished interview strategy, it also takes a well-crafted social media presence. In fact, a study by Jobvite found that 93 percent recruiters will review a candidates social profiles before making a hiring decision. Hiring managers and recruiters will search for you on Google,Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for keys to your personality.Here are some of the fruchtwein common social media tips and tools to manage your online activities and make sure your social appearance matches your resume.HootsuiteHootsuite is a freemium online software designed to manage multiple social media accounts in one place. It can be a pain to spend time logging in and out of your social media networks to update a few posts a day and build your personal brand. To simplify things, consider this social media tip by putting all of those networks in one dashboard, you can streamline your workflow. And dont forget to build saved searches using specific hashtags. Click on the following link to view a list of must-follow hashtags for job seekers.BufferBuffer is very similar to Hootsuite, but it allows you to schedule mora than one post at any time. With the free account, you can connect one profile for each social platformTwitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn, and you can store or schedule up to 10 concurrent posts for each profile. Use it to schedule engagement with brands and companies that you want to impress. Schedule retweets from those organizations official handles or from a recruiters handle to help draw attention to yourself and pace those posts over the course of a day or week.IFTTTIf This Then That (IFTTT) allows you to connect seemingl y unconnected applications, through a super simple interface, to put your social life on autopilot. This open-sourced, online software has more features than other automated websites. But it can be a bit confusing at times. If you need a little push in your job hunt, there are even ways to set reminders to look for new jobs.ClearThis is one of the most important social media tips because one of the biggest mistakes job seekers make with social media is misunderstanding the privacy settings. Facebook is notorious for changing privacy rules and not alerting users. While the general rule still applies dont post it if you dont want your mother to see it there are other tools to protect you. Clear was developed by a former chief technology officer for Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush who ultimately yperit his job because of things found in his public social feeds. He built this app, which can safely scour your Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts to find potentially job-costing pi ctures and posts.Twitter Advanced SearchTwitters advanced search function allows you to search hundreds of millions of 140-character posts going out each day. You can set your eyes on target companies and determine if theyre a good fit. Retweeting those posts is also a great way to show your interest. Search for hashtags like jobs within a particular distance of you.Your ResumeYes, your resume still has a stronghold on earning you the job. Your resume is one of the most valuable tools in your job-hunt arsenal and can open doors for you through social channels in ways you might not have known. Make sure you have an up-to-date, keyword-driven resume on sites like LinkedIn. Regularly follow LinkedIn tips for job seekers so that the next time you log in, your next job will find you instead of the other way around.Need more personal branding tips?Our expert resume writers can help.Related Articles