Archive for the ‘Goals’ Category
What’s this? A post?!?!?
That’s right my friends, a new post after a year and 3 months of nothing. Recent ideas rekindled my interest in this site. As I’m heading off to the gym in a few minutes I don’t have time for a major update, but here are a few high points that occurred during my off time:
- Graduated from college with an AS in Business Administration in April ‘07.
- Sentenced to probation with community service and restitution for my past crimes in April ‘07
- Landed a web development job in November ‘07.
In: Education / Learning, Goals, Health & Fitness, My Websites
A Year Of Eating Correctly (Sort Of)
Last year I posted my goal of forming a diet and nutrition plan based on Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle. I wish I read it years ago! It gave me a complete understanding of how to properly organize meals and eat correctly. I’ve followed it now for a bit over a year and I’ve never looked back. Sure, there have been plenty of days that saw the consumption of foods from the list of things you should never eat. However, even on those days I still followed most of my meals.
In: Goals, Health & Fitness, Uncategorized
Goals: A Year Later
Seeing how it has been nearly a year since my first goal was posted I thought it would be suitable to review my goals. I haven’t looked at this list in quite a while and the results are mixed.
Goal #1: Sell One Item A Day
This goal was short lived. I did manage to sell off a lot of my extra junk over the past year, but not one item a day. I probably have enough stuff to get rid of that I could continue this. Not a high priority, but something I could start doing again.
New Goal: Ambidexterity
Finally, a new goal! While simple, this one is not easy to achieve.
In 6 months I can write at a normal speed with acceptable penmanship using my right hand.
Second time’s the charm
It’s official. I’m matriculated, registered, and paid. I’m going back to college. Which leads me to…
Goal #8: Achieve a minimum GPA of 3.8 at my new school.
This time I’m going to do it right. This time I’m in a program that I want to be in. I don’t feel like I need to be there, I want to be there. I think that makes a major difference in how I perform. If I don’t want to do something I resist it.
Polyphasic sleep adjustment finished!
I believe that I have finally reached the end of the adjustment period. Yesterday was the first day I made it through without feeling excessively tired at any point. Today has been about the same. I’ve been loosely following polyphasic sleep now for 3 weeks. It has been enough time to conclude that it is a very real alternative to wasting your life with normal sleep.
I feel that the nights I slept 8 hours helped my body adjust and refresh itself. I will be using at least one monophasic sleep night a month and I suggest that others on this schedule should try it as well. It doesn’t seem to have any negative effects on the polyphasic cycles.
No Snakeoil Here
A few people have requested that I discuss investing so that’s what I’ll do here, starting with more specific long term goals.
Goal #7: 5 Year Financial Goal. In five years the vast majority of my income comes from a combination of rental properties, forex, and stocks/options investments.
Here’s a breakdown of each:
Shake your booty!
On Tuesday I went gym shopping. There are 4 within a few miles of my apt. Two are YMCAs, one is a World Gym, and the other is Midtown Athletic Club. I decided to look into all of them and pick which one was best for me at this time.
The YMCA downtown is quite large so the smaller one was out. I’ve heard pretty good things about this Y location so I checked the prices. Promo signup fee of $37.50 and $54.50 a month. Not too bad. I didn’t take a tour of the Y.
Happy New Years!
Happy New Years everyone! Have you set your goals for 2006? How about 2011? If the answer was no to either of these you need to set them today. How can you achieve anything without knowing what you want to achieve?
Even if it’s a simple goal like my #2 (post a blog entry a day) it will help motivate you. You’ll then think about other goals to set and what you can accomplish.
Finally going live on Forex!
I received cash from most of my relatives as Christmas gifts. I decided to use all of the money, plus some of my own, to open a real Forex trading account. I will be starting with a whopping $200. If the account is up after a month of trading I’ll start adding more on a regular basis.
