Sunday, January 6, 2013

My New Year's Resolution: Update my Blog

Welcome back to my blog!  It's been more than a year since I wrote one of these, so I'll excuse you for not caring that I'm back. 

Anyway, I've decided to make posting to my blog one of my New Year's resolutions.  To keep me motivated, I'm doing two things.  One of them is to use the Seinfeld method of productivity, which I read about on Lifehacker, one of my favorite websites.  The idea behind this is to have a calendar and for every day you accomplish a set goal, you mark that day with an "x".  Once you start marking down dates, the idea is that you will not want to "break the chain."  And one of the things I will be doing daily is writing blog posts.

But what shall I write about?  That's the reason I'm going to trying to do some other things on a daily basis.  One thing I have wanted to do is start reading more.  I have resolved to read 50 pages a day, and hope that the reading will also provide me with inspiration for blog posts. 

The other thing I am going to start keeping track of is my exercise.  I've registered for the Lincoln Half Marathon in May, so need to start training to make sure I can do it.  Every week I will make an exercise plan and each day I follow it I can mark an "x".  That will likely include a couple rest days a week, so I will get an "x" on those days if I have done all of the exercise since the last rest day (or I do a make up workout on that day).

The calendar I have created has room for four daily activities, and I haven't specified a fourth one, although I think it might be fun for that one to be a monthly challenge.  Some creative monthly challenges might also make for good blog fodder.

I'm sorry if this post is a little ramble.  I'm typing it on my ipad (something else I want to experiment with) and am kind of just typing as I think.  Hopefully writing daily will improve my organization.  And with that, I get my first X.