Well I just noticed that my CSS is broken over here on the WordPress side of the site … I know it was when I added the header (also broken over here) … I will fix this week with some luck ….

I’m in need of a nice project/issue tracker that can be installed via FTP / Web interface only … I’m currently entertaining bug genie, but am open to suggestion … Ideally I would run RedMine and call it a day, but I have to deal with some strange limitations at the moment, and Don’t really want to do all the customization needed to get Mantis to look right…

Tomorrow is a BIG DAY …. Positive vibes from everyone please, just send me some thoughts of awesomeness if at all possible in the morning… I figure it can’t hurt and may just help.

Need to get to sleep…

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It’s been a VERY long time since I have managed to cobble together a post for the site, so it’s very fair to say that this round of experimenting has been a public failure … ( YAY Me!!!! ) – Fail fast, Fail often I guess…

I’ve been busy with clients and contracts which is great, so busy in fact and have had to turn down work (which is a great place to be, although it never lasts).
I’m back to teaching 2 mornings a week, this time at the International Academy of Design and Technology / RCC in Toronto. I love teaching and have been waiting for an opportunity to get back to it. It is by far the most rewarding (personally) work anyone could ever do. I’m teaching Game development with Ogre and have to send a personal thanks out to Kwam for getting me the gig.

The next few weeks are pretty stressful and will actually shape (or hopefully re-shape) the direction I’m heading in, so everyone please keep a positive vibe running for me and with some luck, I’ll get some serious issues out of the way and be able to get back to a normal life.

Thats all for now,
Love, Peace, Etc…

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Well I figured I better provide an update to the back on track experiment seeing as time passes even if I’m not doing so great on my goals …

The trick is to be either more stubborn, or more stupid (depending on how you look at it) … I could quite easily call this experiment a failure, but I prefer to try and learn from my mistakes and keep failing forward … it’s that whole ready fire aim attitude I have…

More Debt, Less Paying work, missing Guitar practices, have only picked up 1 song so far (and should have picked up 4 by now), meditating daily (thats working for me), have been out on the bike, but not enough yet (lack of funds can damper the biking), still smoking.

So what to do?

Well let’s see what I’m not doing right and see if I can correct it mid flight rather then crashing the plane and starting over …

The great ones say (the great ones being Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Jack Canfield, Eckhart Tolle, Etc… ) They all say that I need to know what my chief aim and purpose in life is, I should write down my goals in a clear and concise manner, that I need to read aloud twice daily this statement of desire and I need to use my power of visualization to see things the way I want them to be as if I have already achieved them.

Considering that part of my ideal happens to be displayed as Tony Stark’s lifestyle, I would say thats a pretty tall order to fill … But I like a good challenge.
So I’m going to have another crack at this… Because I didn’t really do things the way that ALL of the great successful people say that I should, and the point is to listen to what the successful people say right? What do I have to loose from writing it down and reading it aloud everyday? People already think I’m nuts…

Ok,
I’m going to start out with discovering my chief aim and purpose in life. Because thats just so simple for everyone (lmao). Then I’m going to write out my goals in a way that I can repeat them to myself (aloud) daily and I’m going to take 10 min after my meditation time to bone up on my visualization …

Thats the plan …

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Step one: steal underpants …
Step two:
Step three: PROFITS!

No, no, not that step three … although I DO like ‘profits’

Step 3: When you fail, know forgiveness for yourself.

Failure is a requirement in life I think. So long as you’re willing to look at why you failed and learn something from it it can be one of the most positive experiences in the process of attainment of a goal.

So fail fast, fail often. Then pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again….

I’ve failed at making a daily post on my blog here, w00t!!!
Why? well I think that in part it’s because my desire to blog daily wasn’t strong enough to actually do it daily and keep it up. The desire dwindled as I had more things that required my attention added to my plate.

Thing is *I DO* want to blog daily, but not having the time to write about my day scheduled into a daily routine made it really easy to skip out on, and even though I have this overdue item in my GTD tool staring at me constantly (Write daily blog), its not getting me to get it done … So clearly the GTD stuff is also failing for me. Even though I am getting a lot of things done faster and with better accuracy, having overdue ‘stuff’ that doesn’t provide a sense of urgency doesn’t make them get done any faster.

What I need to do now is the following … (this is how you salvage the failure and turn it into a victory)
1. Not dwell on the failure, it happened, accept it.
2. Decide if you want to try again (in my case the answer is YES)
3. Make a change in the way you were doing the failure. (you would be amazed at how many people never do this)
4. Take the first (or next) step and get moving.

So, because I don’t want to fail again at this. I will try setting aside some time every day (about an hour) to get the posts done. I like the idea of blogging about yesterday where I can provide hindsight, and I know from journal writing that only the important events of the day stick after a sleep… So I will aim for the AM to do this (like now). That should also give me that warm fuzzy feeling I get from knowing that I have accomplished something early in the day which usually motivates me to get more done.
See that? potential to take a failure and not only turn it around, but to make it a productive part of my day and help accomplish even more towards my goals.

Have an uber awesome and fantastic day everyone

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Today the 400 hwy was shut down so I couldn’t commute the 100+km into the office, can you hear the disappointment in my tone? Luckily, I’m good at keeping focus when i’m not in the office and actually I think I was more productive today then I have been all week (and its still early), Not just with the work I’m doing on this project, but in managing a few calls I had to make but have been putting off … I can feel the cold shroud of fog lifting off of my brain finally, its been months since I have had this clarity, I did notice that my posts for almost the past week haven’t gone live .. I really need to keep on top of this … The earlier part of the week was simply me slacking in my writing, but I caught up … they just never made it live…

Bare with me good people, the time is soon that my blog makes it consecutively up on time.

Now I need to go back to battling with a TinyMCE plugin that doesn’t want to cooperate with this Rails app … so it’s a shortened post today.

Cheers!

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I figured it was time to get an update in here on the Back on Track Experiment…

Thinks are definitely moving in a forward momentum, not yet at the ‘take on a life of their own’ kinda momentum but thats coming. I can feel it. I have slacked in places, and kept my nose to the grindstone in other places, but I’m not satisfied yet with the amount of effort I have been putting in. This is A LOT of effort to keep on top of things… Some of the things in my life have totally slipped, and I’m trying to keep them afloat but haven’t managed to get them all straightened out yet.

The GTD stuff is helping but I’m not as proficient in it as I need to be, and a few times I have caught myself just changing the due date of an over due item … now thats better then forgetting about it forever, but still not getting it done. So I need to work on that Still … My Guitar playing has severally suffered in the past bit I really need to get a day of the week set up with my buddy Jeff to practice … Monday or Tuesday nights would work best.

I need to get a daily schedule running I think, something that will allow me the time to keep on top of the things I need to get done. My sleeping has been retarded lately and I need to get that under control… I think in part its the time of the year and I just don;t want to wake up… I should really start the polyphasic switch soon .. That will give me the ‘time’ i’m after.

Comments, Thoughts, Feedback … Always welcome.

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