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.