What happened to the 12 Weeks to Fiscal Fitness?

Written by Sam

I have some apologizing to do. I have had the bad habit of over promising and under delivering on this blog. Back in September I was ready to launch the 12 Weeks to Fiscal Fitness program and, alas, nothing happened. My eyes were bigger than my stomach and I fell victim of my tendency to want everything perfect. In addition, right when I was preparing to launch our family was hugely blessed by the arrival of a newborn adopted baby boy. We literally had about 2 weeks notice before he was placed with us. Add to all this that I’ve been unemployed, under-employed, or self-employed at various times (and depending on how you look at it) for over a year.

I don’t mean to excuse my lack of follow through, but rather wanted to give a sense as to why taking on the 12 week program became too much for me to handle. But even more than not following through with the program, I apologize for not communicating to those who were waiting and expecting it.

So now I am taking a new stance on this site which is to under promise and over deliver. I’m also going to let go of my tendency to want perfection in each post. That’s not to say I’m going to let the quality slack, but it does mean that I may be splitting up larger posts into chunks to make it easier for me to write them. It means that I may not be on a perfectly consistent posting schedule (not that this will be any different for the readers, but it will help me give myself a break mentally).

I WILL be starting up the 12 Weeks to Fiscal Fitness soon (given the above, I won’t promise a time). The one difference will be that I can’t promise to have new content every week. That will be my aim, but if I miss it I don’t want to get down on myself and stop posting just because I fell behind. Instead of looking at it as “12 weeks,” you might want to look at it as “12 steps” for now. All of the activities and assignments will still work just as well given a slightly longer time frame and I still anticipate it will help you get your financial life under control. In other words, the content won’t be any different.

I have so much more to share on this topic and I never even scratched the surface as to the topics I wanted to discuss. I miss having the community and user feedback which has dwindled due to my lack of involvement. I hope to reinvigorate that. Personal finances are such a personal topic that we don’t often share our struggles and questions with others and I hope to make this site a place where people can share and get their questions answered.

Thank you to all you readers who have stuck around even during long periods of silence. Your readership and contribution is very valuable to me and I truly appreciate it.

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