Steady Wins the Race (Slow’s OKAY, Too)
It’s the first day since my new-found enthusiasm. This evening after the kids went to bed, my wife and I filed for $420.72 worth of Flexible Spending Account reimbursements. This represents some Explanations of benefits dated as far back as February 2005. Given that we haven’t missed the money, we decided that we’d contribute that toward our first million dollars.
It is my intent to open up an ING Direct account into which we’ll start plopping our earnings on the way to one million dollars. When I do, if I can, I’ll post a link by which you can open an account of your own and credit me with a referral bonus to help me reach my goal 
$420 dollars isn’t bad for 2 1/2 hour’s work but technically, that money was already mine, I just didn’t claim it too quickly. Nevertheless, my objective is to have one million dollars in cash reserves or equitable assets by January 24th, 2007. $420.72 gets me 0.042072% toward my goal. I’m pleased with tonight’s efforts. Unfortunately, $420 is the “slow” part of the race even though it’s more than I typically earn in a day. With that, I need to contribute $2,746.10 per day for the last 364 days of my million dollar year, ending at 11:59pm on January 24, 2007.
It’s nearly that time now so I need to recharge my earning power for more tomorrow. I have some irons in the fire…