Welcome To 99 Changes

I’m NCN and for the past three years, I’ve been writing about personal finance, producing a personal finance podcast, organizing an online personal finance community, and tracking my attempts at weight loss.

After spending a lot of time writing about personal finance, I’ve come to the following conclusion - I need to apply the lessons I’ve learned about personal finance to the rest of my life.  Thus, 99 Changes was born.

The Concept:

99 Changes will chronicle my progress as I work to improve several areas of my life.  I’ve created a list of changes - 99 in fact - that I would like to make.

Each day, I’ll write about a new change.  If all goes well, in a little over 3 months, I’ll have made some very substantial progress and radically improved several areas of my life.

The Plan:

The 99 Changes concept will span all five of my sites.  When I make a personal finance change, I’ll write about it over at No Credit Needed.  When I make a change involving my health, I’ll write about it over at No. Calories Needed.  But, I’ll also write about all of the changes, here, at 99 Changes.  And, I have several changes that I want to make that have nothing to do with personal finances or weight loss.  Those changes will be written about, exclusively, here at 99 Changes.

The Goals:

Clearly, my primary goal is to change several areas of my life.  But, I also hope to connect with other readers and bloggers who are looking to change their lives.  And, before anyone reads too much into the concept, I’m a basically happy guy.  I like my life, I love my wife and kids, and I’m happy with my job.  But, there are certain areas of my life that need a little - or a lot - of work.  Here at 99 Changes, I can go beyond the scope of my personal finance blog and I can, quite literally, write about any topics that are important to me.

I hope that you will feel free to leave comments, with suggestions, thoughts or questions.  And, it would be awesome if you would subscribe to the 99 Changes RSS Feed.

I’m really excited about 99 Changes.  I’ve been thinking about this concept for a long time.  Some of the areas I’ll focus on will include, but will not be limited to - diet, exercise, finances, education, spiritual growth, networking, and organization.  Some of the changes will be minor but a few will be very, very major.  I hope you’ll stay tuned to see how well I do!