Past Week Overview

Its been about a week since my last post, because, as you know, I have been away on a camping trip. The conditions of the trip made it difficult to stick to some of the rules I'd laid down to help myself achieve my goals, but I'm willing to let it slide as it was very different circumstances to day to day life.

Since the beginning of this summer I think that I've done a good job easing myself into it but I need to really buckle down and start getting things done now that I'm into the basic swing of things. I'm going to start going to bed earlier- around 10, so that I can get up earlier and have more daylight hours to do stuff in.

I'm going to start spending the time each day to plan and reflect in this blog to keep myself on track. In order to do this I'm going to have to cut down hte length of each post I think because at the moment my posts are pretty disaorganised and take ages to do. This will be teh structure of future posts:

Day 4-9 Recap

Key Goals:

• Break bad habits ie. Fingernail Biting
• Magic- Improve card manipulation skills and learn card tricks
• Flash Mobs- Organise plenty as well as MP3 Experiment Adelaide
• Work- Improve productivity, speed and quality
• Clean teeth twice a day without fail
• Have shorter showers
• Read more books/ articles
• Business/ websites- launch websites and start making money from them
• Catch up with friends more
• Take accurate phone messages and overcome phone phobia

High Points

• Got website up and running and is now getting linked to by other websites and gaining more and more traffic
• Had a sweet camping trip which was great opportunity to catch up with some mates
• Started reading a book again that I had started ages ago but never finished
• Spent a lot of time planning for Adelaide Flash Mob #2

Low Points

• Still find myself biting my fingernails subconciously
• Planned to overcome phone phobia at work but chickened out
• Become distracted in the shower with thinking and go over time

Goals to focus on this week

• Break bad habits ie. Fingernail Biting
• Magic- Improve card manipulation skills and learn card tricks
• Flash Mobs- Organise plenty as well as MP3 Experiment Adelaide
• Work- Improve productivity, speed and quality
• Clean teeth twice a day without fail
• Have shorter showers
• Read more books/ articles
• Business/ websites- launch websites and start making money from them
• Catch up with friends more
• Take accurate phone messages and overcome phone phobia
• Diet- Bring diet up to healthy level
• Blog- maintain this blog
• Do Jobs- help out mum at home doing jobs etc
• Fitness- Get fit, improve basketball skills, maybe do weights
• Keep room tidy

Plans for today

• Do supplementary assignment for uni
• Work on this blog
• Work on website
• Flash Mob planning
  

Day 2 & 3 Recap

The last two days have been pretty jammed full and I haven't had a lot of time to post in the blog. I have been working hard on my website as I want to get it up and running before I go away on Thursday. However, I have still been doing planning on how to acheive my goals, I've just been doing it in my head and not writing it down. Once I come back from the camping trip though, I'll have more time to sit down and lay plans for the implementation of my strategies to achieve my goals.

Today and Sunday, as i mentioned earlier, I spent a lot of time working on getting my website up and running. Its been an exciting time with some obstacles to overcome but I worked through them and now have over 30 pages up. I should be able to sort out the remaining glitches and add some more pages to get the site live by Thursday.

I've also been spending a lot of time planning for the next Adelaide Flash Mob. Most of this planning has involved throwing around ideas/ dates/ time and place on face book and also discussions with other people. We've set the date at Sat 15th December, after i come back from my holiday.

In other news, I'm beginning to see why its been so hard to not achieve some of these goals before. I've caught myself absentmindedly biting my fingernails a number of times already because its just an automatic thing that I do without even thinking about it. To counteract this, I'm trying to replace the bad habit with something else such as crossing my fingers which is a habit breaking method which I have read about.

I've already learnt that in order to be successful at this, I need to plan and I need to be constantly mindful of my actions- these are things I'm going to work on.

Tuesday & Wednesday's Plans

Over the next couple of days I'm going to be working half days at my job. I'm going to focus on getting my website up and funning as discussed and also on planning the next Flash Mob.

Day 1 Recap

Day 1 came and went yesterday without too much excitement. I was able to start implementing the strategies to achieve my goals. I've decided to start things off gradually rather than jumping into it with an all or nothing approach, to avoid a system shock and giving me a better chance to adapt and make a smooth transition.


My Goals

The goals that I most notably worked on yesterday were:

• stop bad habits
  
• have shorter showers
• Exercise more- improve basketball skills
• Clean teeth twice daily
• Improve diet

I haven't bitten my fingernails at all this summer and all my showers have been less than 4 mins long, I've also cleaned my teeth morning and night. We had a 2 1/2 hour long basketball training session which was good exercise, but highlighted the fact that I need to work on my shooting skills. My plan for this includes buying a basketball and setting up the ring in the back yard so I can put in a bit of practice each day.

One of the most notable things that came out of yesterday was my realisation of my addiction to soft drink. After basketball training I often feel a strong urge to go and buy a coke, because it refreshing but also because it will replenish my sugar levels and give my a pick up. Coke is obviously not good for my teeth or my diet so I'm going to try and combat this buy drinking Powerade which is meant to be excellent for re-hydration and replenishing energy stores, while not being so bad for your health.

Plan for Today (Day 2)

I'm going to have a fairly relaxed day today, mainly working on my website business which I hope to have up and running before I go away camping on Thursday (the 6th). I might also spend some time practicing my card manipulation skills. I'm probably going to a party tonight where I'll get to see a lot of my old school mates so that should be pretty cool.

My Goals

• Break bad habits ie. Fingernail Biting
• Poker- Improve online and live play
• Magic- Improve card manipulation skills and learn card tricks
• Diet- Bring diet up to healthy level
• Flash Mobs- Organise plenty as well as MP3 Experiment Adelaide
• Work- Improve productivity, speed and quality
• Clean teeth twice a day without fail
• Fitness- Get fit, improve basketball skills, maybe do weights
• Do Jobs- help out mum at home doing jobs etc
• Have shorter showers
• Take accurate phone messages and overcome phone phobia
• Improve personal hygiene
  
• Remember peoples names
• Read more books/ articles
• Improve vocabulary- do word puzzles in paper
• Business/ websites- launch websites and start making money from them
• Blog- maintain this blog
• Anger Management- improve
• Catch up with friends more
• Keep room tidy
  

Welcome To The Summer Of Morris

Today, Sat Dec 1st 2007, is the very first day of the long awaited for 'Summer of Morris.' I have decided that this summer, ie. the next three months, I will attempt to achieve many of the things that I've always wanted to do but never got around to as well as work towards some goals that I have recently set for myself.

Typically I'm a very obsessive person, at least I have been since I finished high school in 2004. At any one time I'll have a range of 'obsessions' (as my dad calls them) or hobbies/ interests (as I call them) that I spend my time rather obsessively pursuing. Usually my motivation for these interests is disproportionately high at the beginning but then tends to fall off rather quickly which usually results in me moving on from that interest. During this summer I hope to be able to stick with my obsessions for the long run so that I can actually achieve something great.

My Goals

My list of goals is quite extensive because I have come to the realisation that with each goal added, the additional effort required to achieve each goal diminishes. My goals range in nature from mental to physical with a number in between. Click here for a full list of my goals.

Methodology

My basic methodology is to have a plan in place for everything. I'll do research and formulate a plan to achieve each and every goal. Another reason why I realised that having many goals would be a good idea is because I can use one goal to achieve the other and hence lessen the total work. For example, two of my goals are: to stop the bad habit of finger nail biting and to improve my card manipulation skills. My methodology here is to carry around a deck of cards with me everywhere I go and if I feel the need to bite my fingernails, I'll distract myself by getting out the cards and practicing some tricks.

This Blog

I intend to use this blog as a form of motivation and documentation in achieving my goals. I'm going to spend some time each day planning and writing the plan in the blog and then reflecting on the day past.