Project #1

I've begun to realize that my life is becoming a bit bloated and unwieldy. All the extra 'stuff' in my life is holding me back, slowing me down, and preventing me from focusing on the things which are most important to me.

So, for my first project I am going to de-junk my life. This means I am going to get rid of everything I own which I obviously don't need.

Then I am going to make a list of all the stuff I still own and begin the work of paring it down to the necessaries.

That's actually the easy part.

The hard part will be de-junking my mental life.

I have a lot of conflicting plans, projects, daydreams and hobbies which I have been holding onto in hopes that one day the stars will align and I'll be able to bring these half-understood things to some kind of magical fruition. These 'things' are taking up so much mental space that I have no room left over for the serious mental work of getting things done in the real world.

So I'm going to be prayerfully closing some doors in my life and sweeping out the mental clutter in hopes that I will be better able to move forward.

More to come...

Projects

I'm not really a goal-oriented type of person. In fact, just saying the word goal is generally enough to make me want to sit on the couch for 48 hours eating cheetos and watching reruns of Magnum P.I.. I get anxious just thinking about it.

(48 hours later...)

That said, I am nonetheless painfully aware that real grown-ups set and meet goals.

So in an effort towards compromise, I will henceforth use the word project instead of goal. Why project? Because projects are awesome.

Reasons Projects are awesome:

• Projects can be as small as you want them to be
• Projects are finite. (when you are finished they are over)
• Projects demand creativity
• Projects have no moral component. (If you fail it says nothing about your identity or moral fortitude)
• Projects are not life directions (at least not in themselves. The sum of one's projects might add up to a life direction. Which is kind of the point. right?)

So the plan is to start small and choose projects that will eventually add up to an adult (but not boring) life.

Thirty-Two Years is a Long Enough Childhood...

I have decided, at 32 years of age, that it is time to become an adult. To that end I invite you to follow along as I endeavor to:

• Watch less TV
• Consume Less/Produce More
• Finish the things I start
• Cook
• Fulfill my responsibilities
• Generally add value to the world I live in

...and do other stuff that grown ups do.