Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Posted by Canadian Dream on March 13, 2010
Ok, I know those of you that entered the draw are wondering why it took until Saturday for me to pick names…um…I forgot to do it on Thursday night. Sorry. Then I was out last night so hence a Saturday post.
The winners are: George (comment #1) and Erin (comment #19). I will be contacting both of you to get your mailing addresses.
Have a great weekend everyone,
Tim
Posted by Canadian Dream on March 12, 2010
I have a bad habit of looking up our individual stock’s values every few days. I know it doesn’t really matter, but it’s a habit that is a bit hard to break after being in my buying mode for most of last year. What is somewhat really stupid about the habit is I know barring a major shift in the companies I own I won’t be selling any of their stocks for possibly decades. I just enjoy my dividend cheques too much.
So we end up with these odd events like BMO, which we both own, having a good quarter and their stock climbing up almost $10 from where we last bought some. It looks good on the net worth statements, but it doesn’t do anything for us. The price doesn’t matter when we have no plans to sell.
So I’m in a spiral of knowing the price and having it help our net worth statements, but having no intention of selling so I wonder why I look. I suspect that habit know comes from being a little over concerned with stock prices falling the huge drop in 2008. I keep watching for a potential double dip in our recover since I can’t shake the feeling that it all seems to be going too well.
The reality is I don’t need to look except for every two months to prepare my net worth statement. If the world really goes to hell for the market I strongly suspect it will be all over the news headlines. Anything over a couple percent movement on the TSX in a week tends to end up with it’s own headline so I will know to have a look at that point.
Therefore going forward I’m going to try something new and not look at all until the end of the month. Can I do it? I don’t know, but it sure will be a fun game to play in the mean time to help me break my habit.
Posted by Canadian Dream on March 11, 2010
Do you ever tend to beat yourself up over things you should do? Like:
And the list goes on and on. I feel guilty over all shorts of stupid things too like how dirty my house gets despite the fact I was barely home that week. So in the end I’ve decided something important. Feeling guilty has got none of these things done and it hasn’t made me any happier either so FUCK OFF GUILT! I’m done with feeling guilty.
I’m just one guy with a ton of things in my life and I just can’t do everything. I admit it. I can’t possible do everything that I want to do in life. Hell that’s why I’m planning on retiring early. I’m got enough stuff going on I can easily fill that extra 2000 hours a year that is my day job for those extra 20 years and still need another decade.
So in the mean time I’m going to stop feeling guilty and realize that I’m doing the best that I can. It’s not perfect but the kids still kiss me goodnight after we read stories, my wife still wants to go out on date nights and hasn’t filed for divorce, I still get the odd compliment from my boss at my day job and you the readers haven’t all stopped reading this blog at once. Obviously I’m not doing that bad of a job.
So rather than feeling guilty I’m just going to try to enjoy what I do. I won’t get everything done but I don’t need to. I’m going to let the little things slide and just do my best. Happiness is more important than guilt any day of the week.
So how often do you feel guilty? What do you do to stop?
