The 6 Things. Finally.

by Brian Carl on February 25, 2010

Finally, the list will be revealed.

Before you read it, I want to explain my reasoning for choosing these goals (You can scroll down if you don’t care).

There are a lot of things that I want to do and narrowing the focus down has been hard.

One thing that’s helped is creating a bucket list. This put a lot of the things in perspective. I decided that none of the changes are going to help me professionally and all of them will be designed to help me enjoy life more instead.

I don’t mean this to sound like I don’t like my job or that I don’t want to excel at it. I enjoy it, however at this point I am much better at my job than I am at my life. Also jobs will change over time and creating habits for a healthier body and mind will always be important no matter where life takes me.

The other thing I noticed as I went through my bucket list, I want to spend more time on experiences. It’s so easy to go through life just working and watching TV and continue doing the same thing every day and I want to make avoid this whenever possible. Everyone needs a health balance of the comfortable and the new.

So without further ado:

  1. Get in better Shape. (workout on a regular basis)
  2. Begin carrying a notebook with me wherever I go and documenting experiences, ideas, and goals.
  3. Begin writing on a daily basis
  4. Start doing something entirely new as often as possible
  5. Write a short story
  6. Promote my work (video & writing)

Now some of these might not make sense right away, but all of them will be explained in detail.

The promoting my work can be seen as a professional goal, however I don’t see it that way. I don’t ever intend on making a living off of my creative works, but I still want others to see them and (hopefully) enjoy them.

So there it is, the list is written down and I intend on keeping to it.

Photo Credit: CarbonNYC

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Still Going Swimmingly

by Brian Carl on February 24, 2010

It’s been about 2 weeks since I wrote my last post on my 6 changes project. I discussed dropping my first project and moving on to getting in better shape. I am still slightly disappointed by this , but I know it is better for the project as a whole.

This step is going well. The initial goal is to get into the habit of going to the gym at least 2 times a week and 1 day of extra activity. I haven’t missed a week, but it is still early.

I am not where I need to be with this goal yet, but now I need to start preparing for the rest of them. I mentioned in my last post that I would be writing about the rest of my goals for the year, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I have written them all down, however I didn’t want to jump the gun and throw them all up here without prioritizing them first. This is the problem I had that caused me to halt my first goal and start a new one and I don’t want to repeat that.

The next post will have all 6 goals written out in sequential order and why I am doing them in that way. After that I’ll post actual date and time lines for each goal and exactly what I want to achieve in that time.

Photo Credit: Maia C

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Road Block #1

February 4, 2010
Road Block

I hit my first road block on my 6 changes project.
I should be upset, but I’m not. The reason why is that it’s due to a change in goals.
The writing project has been put back on the shelf, while I focus on getting myself in better shape. I know changing a project this early goes [...]

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Moving on up to Step2?

January 14, 2010
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There is one confusing thing about the 6 Changes Method that I’m following. I never know what to call the steps.
According to the website, I’m getting ready for step 7. Me, I’m a rebel, I’m going to call it step 2. The first 5 steps are all prep work for the actual progress (Making step 6 into [...]

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Should I get the Amazon Kindle.

January 14, 2010
Amazon Kindle

For Christmas I received the Amazon Kindle (from a lovely lady, if I may add). I want to start adding reviews to my site, so this is the perfect opportunity to start.
Should you buy an Amazon Kindle?
Do you read?
If you answered yes, than the answer is yes! (Weird right?)
There is probably more to consider than just a [...]

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Goal 1 – Step 1

January 12, 2010
spidermans gotta perr

I don’t know if anyone actually read through the 6 change method I posted yesterday, but after choosing your goals the first real step is to break them down into 8 small steps.
My first one is getting on the computer in the morning and logging into my blog. It’s not actually writing, but at [...]

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New Year – New Goals

January 11, 2010
writing more

I mentioned before I have new projects going on and as much as I want to write in this blog, other goals have become a priority.
Even though I said that, I was lying. Don’t act so surprised.
I am going to use this blog as a way to help me stick to my goals and will [...]

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You Always Hurt the Ones You Love

November 23, 2009

Every time I start a new Project, this blog seems to suffer.
With that said, I am working on a few new things and have not put the time into working on my posts. This is not one of those “I promise I will post more often” posts that I used to write in LiveJournal all [...]

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The Triforce of Next-Gen Video Games

October 1, 2009

I finally got a PS3. Now my television has the holy trinity of video game systems. After buying it, now I am wondering why I ever bought a XBOX 360 in the first place.
The current consoles are still defined as “Next Generation”, but that is a whole other conversation. I think what really defines this [...]

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There is always an explination

August 12, 2009

So I haven’t been posting recently. So first I apologize to my tens upon tens of fans. Up until this point, my website has gone through two distinct phases as of now.
Originally I posted about whatever I felt like, mostly about video games and technology. I posted mostly because I liked writing and for my [...]

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