Here we go again!

Another year is quickly coming to an end, and seeing as I’m not already independantly wealthy, and still have some BIG goals that I am yet to successfully master, let’s have another go at it shall we… When I fail, try, and try again ( or so goes the adage ).

This time I will commit to two posts per week and more if time permits ( and interesting things are happening … which is pretty much always the case ).

Let’s review the short explanation of this experiment…

Over the next 365 solar days, I’m going to let you in on a few secrets. Secrets that could potentially will change your life if you actually implement them (which is actually the only thing holding anyone back… action). I’m also going to track the progress of the results of these secrets as *I* personally implement them one at a time, so that the skeptics in the crowd can observe the results as they happen to me, because we all know that they are too chicken shit to take the risk required to try something for themselves first. Thats ok though, The smart people reading this will undoubtedly implement these secrets and gain from their benefits as quickly as I do and hopefully we can work together for our mutual benefit.

These are not new principals by any stretch of the imagination, some of what will follow will be my own orderly regurgitation of very old principals, however I know from taking a long and hard look at myself and my own life that the principals are true and do work independently of anything external to ourselves. I know this, because I have been honest with myself, because I have experienced many, many things so far in my life, and I know that *I* am 100% responsible for my attitude, my thoughts, and my actions.

So, the reason for this little online experiment is simple (for me), I need to get my life back in order (currently its a bit of a mess) and one of the primary principals of success is to be accountable for your actions and goals, this experiment is my way of making myself accountable. Its here for anyone to read, so that should help motivate me into action. Feel free to join in, simply sign up for an account here on my blog, and do as I do, or if you have your own blog, follow along and post your own results. I know that success is imminent.

Step 1 – Document your goals. Know what you want. (you cannot hit a target if you do not know what it is).

Seeing that it’s almost  ANOTHER new year, this makes it a perfect time to implement in writing what your specific goals are. (did you catch that? IN WRITING) … This is a secret that many people fail to grasp, something wonderfully subjective happens when we write down our goals, we take the first step towards manifesting them into our physical realities. How can you expect things to happen if you do not take the simple steps to ensure that you are doing your part?

My revised resolutions (goals) in order of priority for the year of 2010. (these will be broken down into simple steps over many up and coming posts).

1. Be the very best Dad possible for my darling daughters.
2. Have more fun then I have had in any previous year to date.
3. Be in better health then I have been in any previous year to date.
4. Maintain a daily meditation schedule to keep centered and keep a positive mental attitude.
5. Learn a new song on the guitar each month.
6. Become proficient in all of the courses that I am teaching (because proficiency is a far cry from understanding).
7. Inspire as many other people to be the best that they can be, and inspire them to inspire others.
8. Produce and be a part of a successful and synergistic Master Mind group.
9. Post a minimum of 2 new blog entries for every week of the year (minimum 300 words). and create a healthy subscriber base.
10. Launch the clothing line.
11. Learn, Laugh, Live. (healthy, wealthy and wise).
12. Make a metric ass-load (technical term) of money.
13. Be on track to be totally debt free before Jan 1 of 2011.

You may have more, or less goals and its ok if you don’t know HOW you’re going to succeed at them, I don’t have clue one how I’m going to accomplish all of those there, I just know that I WANT to succeed at each of those, and I have faith that the universe will provide a way to accomplish each of them.

I also think that this list will grow as I gain momentum. I just started out with some things and put them in order or importance (as far as the bigger picture goes). Note that cash came at the end of the list. This isn’t to say that I’m putting that off, this is to say that money is not as personally important to me as everything else. I have been at the top and the bottom, several times.

Got your list? Why not? Afraid to play along? Don’t know what you want? You can’t move to Step 2 (tomorrow) unless you finish Step 1 (today).

Please Note:
Just because things don’t pan out the way you want them too the first time you make an attempt doesn’t mean you should give up on them. I tried and had an EPIC FAIL last year trying to get this experiment going… That’s OK, I knew that I could try again.   … I don’t want blogging about this experiment to take up too much of my time, and I don’t want it to be the only thing I’m blogging about, so I will try to do alternating updates (one per week about the experiment (my weekly review) and one about how other things are moving along in life. If your one of my students, you may gain some valuable insight by reading both, I mean who wouldn’t like to read at least one weekly blog post on something more interesting to the development, programmer, geek, techie community (or subscribers that aren’t interested in this experiment). As you see above, expanding this blog and writing more is STILL one of my personal and professional goals for this year.

For obvious reasons, (too much information at a single time) I will post over the next few days of my winter break to get the experiment up to spped as far as documenting … my mastery of the cut and paste shall astound you

Please ALSO Note:

Further to the self motivating factor, I enjoy being helpful and this is a great way to provide some solid information aggregated from many sources over many years into a single location and format… Where it goes from there is anyones guess (a book perhaps?). Because I want to share this information and allow everyone else to share it, while still remaining the copyright holder… these posts (Back On Track Experiment) are released under a creative commons license.

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Superstition is an interesting thing, it’s so ingrained in most of us (even those that swear they aren’t superstitious) that were not even aware of it. I thought it would be fitting today to talk about origins to some of the more common ones … Like Friday the 13th. did you know that its only been a mainstream superstitious day since the 1950’s, and the earliest documented reference is in a 1869 Biography of Gioachino Antonio Rossini who died on a Friday the 13th?

There are many theories out there of where this superstition started, from the norse folklore of a goddess named Frigga (Friday) who despite being the goddess of love and fertility convened with 11 other witches and the devil! (13 in total) … You can thank the distorted views of Christianity for that version… and of coarse lets not forget the Da Vinci Code, Knights Templar version that has become popular in recent years. Oh, and I can’t forget that the fear of ‘unlucky’ 13 stretches to much more then just Fridays … Most buildings don’t have an official 13th floor, and as a society we seem to accept that…

Personally I think that as far as days go, its a pretty lucky day …
Friday’s usually rock because the weekend starts, and there are 13 moons in a year… so how could it be unlucky?
But then again, I’m not really a lucky, unlucky, lucky kinda guy. I prefer to think that life is 10% what happens and 90% how you manage it.

Some other common superstitions to leave you food for thought…

Horseshoes – Great luck, just don’t turn them upside down or the luck will fall out
Lucky Rabbit Foot – Lucky for you, not so lucky for the rabbit that lost it.
Four Leaf Clover – Protects you from ‘evil’ spells and really lucky if your Irish.
Broken Mirrors – Seven years of bad luck if you break a mirror … unless of coarse you wait seven hours to clean it up.
Black Cats – don’t let them cross your path (or don’t watch) … Thats why Morphious got nabbed … it was the cat’s fault!

I’m not saying that I’m NOT a superstitious person, I actually am… but I think that as an educated and hopefully intelligent civilization, we should look at some of the limiting beliefs we all carry around with us.

I’m off to have an uber awesome, fantastic, happy, luck, joy day!!! I hope you have one too!!!

Hmmm….
Now I have to find something else to write about next month, when we get another Friday the 13th …

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I keep going, and going, and going … umm, I don’t mean like that (get your minds out of the gutter … although … oh look ! a bird!!! … See, I just realized that a whole month has already passed in 2009… Thats a whole month of blogging, * pats himself on the back for a job well done so far *. I would like to think that what I’m rambling about here is of interest to someone other then just myself, but it’s totally possible that I’m just diluting myself here too The point is, if your reading this and you want to hear me ramble about a specific topic, drop me a note… you can comment here (comments are moderated) or if you prefer, you can use the contact form on the main part of the site.

If you know me, you know that I’m a fairly unique individual and I have a bit of a slanted view on most things. From the meaning of life and my role in it, to the illusion of time and this physically manifest vibrational existence, and including the law of attraction and how thoughts become things, and the firm belief that the glass isn’t half full or half empty, it’s completely full (half liquid, half air, but no matter what you can not get any more volume in the glass itself).

So, seeing as I have been at this a month straight already (as my own personal challenge), I challenge you, the reader to give me some suggestions. Failure to do so will result in more of my ramblings the way I see fit to ramble about things, and I will be sure to include something on the dream-spell (13 moons), more GTD, more Back on Track Experiment, more on Polyphasic sleeping, personal development, traffic, face stabbing devices, commuting, retarded people, government, spring, mountain biking, road tripping, and just about anything else that I can come up with.

Let me be honest, I’m trying to coerce you (the readers) into a suggestion or two because it would be good for me to try writing about something that someone else suggests, and it’s sure to help me become a better writer / blogger. So … Give a guy some suggestions.

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Looks like I spoke too soon … I had to manually publish yesterdays post, Word Press just tossed up a message beside the post that said ‘Missed Schedule“… how helpful (*cough * retarded * cough *) … An answer will come, I’m sure of it

So what’s with the universe as of late? One client say go, then no go after I went. Another client says hurry up, but then doesn’t show up for a scheduled meeting, QuickBooks insists on making integration with Rails so complex that I wish I didn’t have to go anywhere near QuickBooks (but I still do). My oldest hasn’t called me in over a week now . The people that I have been forced to to deal with against my will for the sake of my children haven’t returned a phone call (thats a whole other story). I had to deal with a flat tire last night… what gives?

I’m being my normal optimistic self, why all the obstacles and challenges? The universe must know by now that I’m just gonna shine no matter what… If last year didn’t kill me, it’s unlikely that anything except old age will… So when do the uber hot, half naked women start throwing themselves at me, where is the mountain of unexpected money and fortune, and why hasn’t it fallen on me yet ….

Puzzling, thats for sure Oh well … I’ll be grateful that the go no go client will be super happy with everything once it’s done and a real go, relaxed that the hurry up client is allowing me to make it a leisurely stroll vs. a sprint, proud that I will have mastered Rails and QuickBooks by the time the integration is done, extra excited to hear from my beautiful little girl, happy that the people I’m forced to deal with are only hanging themselves more by not getting back to me in a timely manner, and glad that I finally got that portable air compressor I needed to get.

Attitude of Gratitude Universe… Thanks for all the great stuff your sending …
Can I put in a request for those super hot half naked women to hurry up with my mountain of money?

Awesome!!!

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