What an exciting start to the year! January isn’t over and I have already completed some of the goals in my 2010 Action Plan, and am working on others.
Visited Grandparents, Friends & Mexico
We headed out to Texas on January 2nd and stopped just north of Houston at a friends’ house for a couple of nights. [...]
After reviewing my life in 2009, I set about deciding what I want my life to look like in 2010. I followed this basic template to set my goals.
2010 – The Year of Growth
Business – Create a business (or multiple mini-bizs) that provides the income for my wife and I to live from.
$900 take-home each [...]
I’ve got a lot going on right now, so I need to be able to focus. If you’ve spent any time around me, you know that I don’t do fixed focus and single-tasking very well. Indeed, as I write this I am sitting outside watching traffic go by, listening to the iPod and writing (all [...]
We have made our life list and narrowed it down to a year’s worth of goals; now it’s time to start achieving those goals!
I’m going to use my goal of “Be financially self-sufficient” as an example, as I feel that it will be the most challenging of my three. But first, let’s recap:
What makes [...]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the things that you did do.
Wednesday we discussed the importance of making your life list and you made yours. (You did, didn’t you?) Here is my wife and I’s. We have already completed some of our goals, as [...]
I’m sure you know what you want to to today. You might even know your goals for this week. What about this year? This life?
Without set goals, it is too easy to live day-to-day, in a reactive state. If you are living in such a way, you can almost feel as if you are just [...]
Have you ever come home from a trip and unpacked stuff that you never used? That won’t happen to me on this trip. I will return from nearly 5 months in Ireland having used everything that I brought. With some careful planning, I was able to fit everything for the trip in a single suitcase [...]
I have been accused of being a bit frugal. As a recently married college student whose wife is also a full-time student, I generally do my best to live up to that accusation. As a man of limited means, I try to get the most value out of any money that I spend.
This [...]
What makes somewhere worth visiting? After leaving, why do you gush about one place and forget another? I’m sure that everyone will answer these questions differently. However, there is an easy way to determine your personal definition of a place. Think about your favorite trip (or the one you dream about.) What first comes to [...]
If you are like the average American*, you are spending over two weeks every year with your television! Just think how many more adventures you could have in two weeks!
How much television do you watch every day? Just one show? Assuming you watch a single hour-long show each day, that adds up to 365 hours [...]
