Most of you don't know me and I don't know most of you (and never will).
People who do know me know that I am typically a fairly laid back person who tends to "go with the flow" most of the time. The last couple of years have involved quite a bit of "drifting" in my personal, home and professional life which has resulted in not a lot of progress on many fronts.
Following one definition of Insanity: Continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results. I have decided that this year I will make an effort to live Deliberately and thereby make decisions and gasp! set goals and work to achieve them.
Like a lot of people I am good at starting new things. I have enthusiasm and even some high expectations then after a while I get bored and let things slide. This year the aim is to finish things I have started and to start more things.
So why the blog?
Partly as a record for me to be able to look back on and partly as an aid to goal setting. You know the drill: Write it down or tell people about it and it becomes more real.
Some not so vital statistics:
- I'm 88kg and 188cm (194lbs and 6'2")
- 46 years old
- Married with two kids (14 and 12)
- Work from home as an IT consultant in software development
- I read a lot (mostly fanstasy)
- Have aspirations to be a writer
- Am a fairly dab hand at home renovation work (some of it even gets completely finished!)
- Can put away a 500g pack of Jersey Caramels in under two hours and still feel like eating more sweets
- I drink around 2 litres of Coke Zero every day
- Do no organised or coordinated exercise program
- I'm great at writing procedures for others to follow but lousy at following them myself
- I have an old achilles tendon injury on my left ankle that makes running and sometimes walking painful
- Two years ago I fell over while ice skating and damaged my right shoulder. After physio it is better but like many things I didn't follow through the physio completely so it isn't completely better.
Why did I tell you all that? Well, so you can see a little of the person I am now.
So what is going to be different this year?
- Let's start with this blog. The aim is to update it at least once a week and otherwise whenever something worth noting happens.
- I have just joined a local gym and will be starting Pilates on Feb 4 after getting a health assessment on Feb 2.
- We have 6 1.25litre bottles of Coke Zero in the house. These are the last bottles that will be bought for the year (yikes).
- Sweet and biscuit consumption will be cut back to sensible limits rather than one pack per day.
- I plan to write, creatively, for two hours a day five days a week aiming for 1,500 to 2,000 words per day starting on 1 Feb.
- I have a number of jobs around the house that REALLY need to be attended to this year and have been put off for a number of years. They will be scheduled and dealt with. They include re-building the pergola, replacing the driveway, replacing the kitchen and laying a new floor though 1/3 of the house.
