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		<title>December 2009 Goals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve realized that I need to get myself into a routine to help with my ADD and getting my life back on track. I&#8217;m going to start slow so that it is manageable, but I think it&#8217;s important that I commit to something. I have a few million different ideas, but one I think would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve realized that I need to get myself into a routine to help with my ADD and getting my life back on track. I&#8217;m going to start slow so that it is manageable, but I think it&#8217;s important that I commit to something. I have a <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">few</span> million different ideas, but one I think would really mean a lot to me could be done in conjunction with my own healing. I want to create a product/workbook that could be sold to help others. I will develop it for my own weight and body issues healing. I want to combine a diet along with a journal regimen, that asks 90 important questions, 1 per day for 90 days. In order to create a successful product, I need to test it and insure that it actually works. In doing so, I can use my own photographs and will be a real life example of it&#8217;s success. I know all the right things to do to lose weight, feel better emotionally, etc., but I have been procrastinating doing them. I keep putting it off until tomorrow and my life is slipping away from me. I want to regain control of myself and I think by creating and testing this method with writing everyday for 90 days, I can see significant results not only in my weight and body issues, but in every area of my life.</p>
<p>I am going to start December 1. The diet part will consist of mostly green smoothies, juices, simple raw foods and vegan soups if needed (for the cold months). I want to stick to mostly green smoothies, but I think it&#8217;s important for me to allow some variety to keep myself from failing. This is 90 days or 3 months &#8211; it will go by quickly, but at the same time, there will be days where it seems to go on forever and I will want to give up. I can&#8217;t though &#8211; this is the one thing I am going to commit to work on for the next 3 months. All of December, January, and February is exactly 90 days so it works out perfectly. After I complete these 3 months, I will have a better idea of how my program works and I can spend the Spring months creating, editing, and finalizing the workbook.</p>
<p>Of course, exercise is going to be an important aspect of the program as well, but it will be less regimented. I am just going to ask myself and others to do some form of exercise 5 days a week &#8211; even if that means just putting on shoes and walking outside. The most important aspect of the program will be answering and writing about the daily questions for 90 days. I am going to spend time today coming up with at least 50 questions, but hopefully I can come up with an entire list. Now I need to get to the library, deposit my checks, and get ready to go to the focus group this evening. I also need to stop by whole foods and get some bananas and possibly mangoes, apples, and other fruits.</p>
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		<title>Progress by brute force</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my employee come into work today. She arrived late in the afternoon and was of some help, but having my mother came over was the real brute force. I turned down her offer to help last night. The whole house was/is just overwhelming. You don&#8217;t know where to turn or what to do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had my employee come into work today. She arrived late in the afternoon and was of some help, but having my mother came over was the real brute force. I turned down her offer to help last night. The whole house was/is just overwhelming. You don&#8217;t know where to turn or what to do because there is just crap everywhere. I really had intended to go through all of these things and get totally organized, but now we are down to the wire and there really isn&#8217;t time for that anymore. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I did organize a lot, but as far as selling things goes, I have yet to list a single thing. </p>
<p>I am so turned off eBay and dealing with customers and shipping and sales, I just don&#8217;t want to look at it. It is such a hassle to go through all the various processes to get things listed, then managed, then shipped, boring and tedious. I have been procrastinating and putting that off, but it&#8217;s really show time now and I don&#8217;t have any time to waste. I need to have these items listed to sell and I&#8217;m not nervous because it all may have to be out by a week from tomorrow! Yikes! Where will it all go? I guess the next week is going to be really, really busy for me. I will at least be rewarded with a trip to Japan at the end of it. </p>
<p>I need to remember that promise that I made to myself about getting all of the pictures taken and items listed and things packed up in order to be able to justify taking this trip. I sort of let myself forget that and didn&#8217;t stay focussed or live up to my promise to myself. Promises to myself and trusting myself are big issues I am dealing with right now. I do know that I need to follow through on these things, but I don&#8217;t end up doing them, oftentimes, until it&#8217;s too late. I have squandered away so much money just by failing to live up to my responsibilities towards myself. It&#8217;s sickening really.</p>
<p>I did make some progress today though. I did drink my green smoothie and I did go out for exercise. I also packed most of my house other than the bathrooms. I don&#8217;t feel like I should pack bathroom type goods to go into storage for 6+ months. That just doesn&#8217;t make sense. I wonder if I should pack my lights and tables and all of that good stuff. It would probably be a good idea. And shit, what am I going to do with all my huge storage shelves? It is looking like I am going to need S afterall to manage the selling off of this stuff. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why I thought I could really pull this off and I stopped myself as I started to type that because I couldn&#8217;t believe what I am saying, but I guess that is how I am really feeling deep down. I know that I can pull this off if I put my mind to it and work hard, but I&#8217;ve been having a difficult time getting to that place. I bought some red bull today and then I smoked some in the afternoon. It was my first red bull ever and it tasted like candy cough syrup. I had no idea. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s something that anyone should look to drink on a regular basis, I feel like it&#8217;s probably highly addictive in a sick sort of way. Why do I say that? I found myself back at the store this evening buying myself another 16oz. can. What am I thinking??!</p>
<p>I talked to a good friend today for quite awhile and he really made me feel better on the relationship front. He offered a good perspective and kept me from doing something I didn&#8217;t really want to do anyway. By that, I mean calling a close friend that disrespected me out of nowhere, a lashing out, likely stemming from being in the midst of a long, drawn out breakup. But maybe not. The maybe not has been driving me crazy, the lack of caring or importance of my feelings too. Maybe I expect to much of my friends, maybe I don&#8217;t. This is how I am though and he more than anyone does know this. Now I suppose it&#8217;s the wondering how long it&#8217;s going to take him to man up and apologize, but hopefully I can focus on everything else going on right now and remove this from the forefront of my mind. What good is calling someone an asshole when you&#8217;ve already said it hundreds of times before? What good is being friends with an asshole, much less close close friends? Whatever it is, I know that things will change is going to happen and I know that I&#8217;ll be better of for it and grow in the end.</p>
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