Lately, I have had problems concentrating. I am back in Paris, have lots of people to visit, I am also staying with my mum and helping her around the house. Plus that housing situation at 32 is not optimal. Anyway, I have postponed a lot of things for too long. So I am setting some concrete goals for September, and will review them in a month.

Blog

1. Find a picture for each article. It is harder than I thought, if you respect copyright. I have a lot of personal pictures but not many related to finance.

2. Update SEO on each article. I use a SEO add-on on WordPress, so I will have to add titles, description and keywords on some articles.

3. Link my articles between themselves. Many have no links and are related to old posts.

4. Update the Tweet and FB like buttons on each article. They haven’t been working properly.

5. Create my Facebook app. This one has been postponed ever since I created the blog! It is needed to have a Facebook widget on the blog, and so that people can follow me on FB.

6. Update my Twitter account. Make some lists to see through all the people I follow.

7. Download Dreamweaver to brush up my blog’s design! I use this awesome theme but need some personal adjustments that I can’t manage to do on WordPress, since I don’t know the first thing about PHP and I think I already broke something! I leave this one for last since there is a 30 days trial on Dreamweaver and I don’t want to download and then do nothing for 30 days.

Financial

1. Spend nothing!

   I wish… Every time I am back in town I spend a lot going out to visit friends. I have less money this month because I have to pay about $1000 in taxes that was not expected, and the sale of my apartment fell through, so I won’t see that big check in October either. I have to keep paying the condo fee for the apartment, and the secure door that I am renting, and it costs about $400 per month. So that’s $1400 out of nowhere. I really need to minimize spending. Already staying with my mum so no rent!

2. Cycle or public transportation

   I am lazy, and now that I have a motorcycle, it is easy to just take it out to visit friends. Paris is a complicated city to park, and people ride like crazy. So every time I go out, I am putting myself at risk, and spending money on gas. I will take my bicycle out of my mum’s storage this week and cycle around or take the subway. Plus I can drink with my friends and not worry about a DUI!

3. Work

   I need a bit of cash so will have to find a temp job or write more. I have contacts for both.

4. Landlording

   One of my tenant in the UK gave notice so I have to find a new one by the end of the month. My flat is usually quite popular and people are back to school looking for housing so it should be an easy one.

5. Studio flat

   My Parisian studio was supposedly sold and the buyer got cold feet. I will put adds anywhere I can to try and sell it.

That’s all for now!