Hello Again...

Its been 4 weeks since my last post- a pretty disapointing performance- but thats not to say that I haven't been working on my goals throughout that time. The past three mondays I've said to myself that I would update this blog but each time I just didn't get onto it, but today I thought that I REALLY had to get onto it.

There are a couple of reasons why I haven't been updating the blog frequently like I said I would. I have thought about what to write in this post many atime and came up with a standard reason to excuse my absense. This is that its a busy time of year with lots of stuff on etc etc and I didn't have the spare time to keep the blog updated. Now, while the lack of time was certainly a factor, it was definately not a large contributor.

The main reason was the same one that has been an obstacle my entire life and is what this blog was meant to help me overcome; my procrastination and laziness. I can always muster so much enthusiasm and motivation but when it comes to getting started and then continueing, thats where the problem lies.

In addition to that, I realised that the resulting benefit from doing these long 'planning' posts probably wasn't great enough to overcome the time lost preparting for, planning and writing them. However, I think that I can find a happy medium between these two forces by doing short, sharp and shiny 'planning' posts, therefore not wasting much time, but still leading to some benefit.

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As I mentioned above, just because I havne't been updating the blog it doesn't mean that I haven't been working towards my goals. Below is a list of my goals with the ones that I have done significant work on highlighted in bold.

• 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

These are the goals that I've done some work on but need some additional time and effort to make a solid impact:

• Poker- Improve online and live play
• Magic- Improve card manipulation skills and learn card tricks
• Diet- Bring diet up to healthy level
• Work- Improve productivity, speed and quality
• Clean teeth twice a day without fail
• Fitness- Get fit, improve basketball skills, maybe do weights
• Have shorter showers
• Overcome phone phobia
• Improve personal hygiene
  
• Keep room tidy

Which leaves the following goals which I haven't really done anything with yet:

• Do Jobs- help out mum at home doing jobs etc
• Take accurate phone messages
• Remember peoples names
• Improve vocabulary- do word puzzles in paper
• Blog- maintain this blog
• Anger Management- improve

In addition, I've realised that while I want to acheive all my goals to better my life, I should still do things that I enjoy doing even if they don't really have any other use, such as watching good movies, dvd's and tv shows.

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Below I'm going to give some brief sentences which show what I've acheived:

• Almost all my fingernails are past the end of my fingers
• We've had two Flash Mobs this summer, and we have a related event coming up this Saturday
• I finished reading 'The Jesus Dynasty,' and am now reading 'The God Delusion.'
  
• I've built and launched one of the two websites and its gaining popularity. I've now made a total of US$80 from this business venture.

Here are some brief sentences outlining my plans for acheiving my goals:

• Play Sit n Go's at Full Tilt and focus on playing ABC poker
• Analyse similar websites to mine and work on improving my structure and content
• Practice to overcome phone phobia
• Eat large meals to cut down on snacking on junk food
• Scout locations and activities for MP3 Flash Mob

If I can keep my posts to something simple like the two sets of dot points above then I might be able to acheive the happy medium mentioned earlier.