Whoops!

I'll tell you something about myself and this blog: anytime I don't update, it's probably because I have nothing good to report. This blog is about progress and when I backslide, it's much less fun to reveal on this blog than when I'm doing great things that people can be inspired by. Since I haven't updated in like 2 weeks, you can probably imagine how I've been spending my time (poorly). I might as well have stuck my head in the sand for those two weeks.

I saw a video that someone linked me to the other day:


Now, truth be told, I don't believe that you should give up things that keep you alive like eating or sleeping. Those things are NEEDS. Food, air, clothing, shelter, those are things that you need to survive. Success isn't something you can NEED to survive, but you can WANT it very strongly. The trick is to fool your brain into thinking it NEEDS success or it will die. I'm still working on this.

I'm going to post up a printout of my goals for this program onto my wall, and for 15 minutes at a time, I will visualize success in those areas. Today, because I'm not busy, I will do this every hour on the hour. Let's be honest, if I want to change all of my paradigms and accomplish the extremely aggressive goals I've made for myself, I need to have an all-consuming desire for success. Anything less will lead to failure.

My areas of wealth and health pretty much suffered lately. I've skipped a few gym sessions (I always skip morning cardio the day after a night out/drinking), ate a lot of crap, and spent a lot of money that I should be holding onto during this financially slow period. I had two job interviews for server positions. I would be a perfect candidate for either restaurant, but I feel that getting fired from my last job was really a game-changer and probably soured all the other things I brought to the table. I haven't gotten a call back from either, which means I just need to apply to restaurants at a greater volume, and hope something sticks.

My relationships probably improved. I saw an old friend, really cemented friendships with the people I hang out with, it was overall a good thing. And more good news as well- I talked to a few girls (mostly while drinking), and although they all shot me down/blew me off, I feel good about putting in that effort. The effort needs to be like 10x stronger and 10x more consistent for me to achieve 50 dates in a one year span, though. I'm going to have to be clockwork on this point.

I'll let you know how everything goes tomorrow. Get amped!