What’s my Problem?

This past December, I regretfully declared to several co-workers that I would start a blog. My initial thoughts were that I would simply keep a journal type of blog, but Christina said “You need to have a goal before you start, otherwise you won’t keep it up.”

So I decided, because I frequently say I will do something but don’t follow through, this would be a perfect time to start a blog about my goals (which I am calling problems, more on that later). Having my goals for the year in writing not only holds me accountable for them, but acts as a perpetual to-do list.

The Rules:

Goals are divided into 10 categories, as follows:

- Meaningless: Exactly what it says. Goals that are meaningless, but fun. For me at least.

- The Heart Smart Category: Stuff that is good for other people, or fills my soul with a warm feeling. Or is good for me and other people, but still benefits me the most because I look like a better person in the end. These will be tear-jerkers.

- The Healthy Category: Goals that will help me not be so out of breath when I climb the flight of stairs up to my apartment.

- Get Smart: I’ll learn new skills and expand my horizons in this category.

- Food: It’s embarassing that I’m giving food a full category.

- Financial: I won’t go into specifics when I list these goals, because it’s NOYB. You’ll just have to trust that I’m doing them because it’s my blog and I can do what I want. I’ll tell you what they are, but I won’t give you numbers.

- You tell me what to do: I’ll do what you say, as long as it won’t hurt me, or hurt someone else, or get me fired.

- The Culture Vulture: This is where I force myself to go to museums and similar boring things.

- Travel: Places I want to go, obviously.

- Random: For everything else that does’t fit nicely into one of these groups.

Why am I calling my goals my “problems”?

For a few reasons.

1) I will probably procrastinate so badly while doing this, that they will end up being big problems.

2) For every goal I do not accomplish, I will donate $10 to Cornerstone Community Outreach. So thats like.. 900 bucks or something. And thats a problem… But, for every goal I do complete, they’ll get $5. At the very least, that is $500, plus the money from any goals I don’t accomplish.

3) Problem is cuter to say than goal is.

4) oh, and it was a Jay-Z song, and I stole it. What are you gonna do about it?

ok, time to get started….