25 Minutes and Counting until I'm 25. An appropriate start to this blog. I figured out what I wanted for my birthday this year. I wanted a clean bill of health. I've tried diets, and schemes, and nothing seems to work because I over-do it. I come up with these crazy goals and then I get depressed when I don't meet them and give up.
No more.
Now I have clean, reworkable, and reasonable goals. I have a reasonable deadline: May 4th, 2011. I have a list of tasks, all of which can be adjusted slightly per realism. The real goal is an everyday goal. Something that is internal. Something that is subjective, and only relies on myself. Every day, at the end of the day, I must be able to look at myself and know I made the right choices. Didn't eat that candy bar. Did go to the gym. Did go on a Hike. Didn't play video games all day. Did eat a well balanced lunch. All of these things.
I don't respond well to negative criticism (I'm all about constructive though). And I need a reward system. Something tangible so that each day I can feel the reward of my labor grow in my hands. To accomplish this, I purchased a pair of Lego sets: an X-wing, and Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1 Starfighter. Each day, when I look back and know I've done the right thing, I can take 1-3 pieces (depending on the step) and start building. At 6 moths I will complete one of the pieces, and in the later 6, I will have completed the second. With this constant reward system I feel I can keep on track and always have these goals in mind.
So the purpose of this blog is to keep track of my progress. If anything significant changes, or I take a new picture of my progress, I'll put it all here. This will keep me thinking about this new goal. This change in life. With a whole year being put into this, I shall come out the other side a changed man. Things will be easy, and I'll be rolling through life better than I ever was.
