Kind of Goals

New Years Day is coming, a day of partying and resolutions that are forgotten within the first few weeks of the year.  I've never liked New Years Resolutions for that exact reason.  Nobody keeps their promises beyond the first few weeks because it's near impossible to remember something that long.

This is why I've decided to make some pre-New Years Goals:  Goals to be completed before New Years Day arrives, or at least that's the plan.

I have this theory about goals.  Goals are incredibly hard to achieve by nature, because once a person establishes a goal, reaching that goal becomes a chore, and except for those few exceptionally motivated people in the world, no one wants to complete something they have to do.  So this is why, instead of goals, I'm establishing some Kind of Goals for myself.  With Kind of Goals, a person doesn't have to complete them, they just have to work toward completing them, and they will have succeeded in their Kind of Goals.

This Years Kind of Goals (to be completed before December 31st, 11:59 p.m.):

• Get everything that I need to do done by my dentist appointment (sometime Dec 28).  That means a lot of writing in the next couple days.
  
• Cut my showers down to 15 minutes each.  At least.
• Exercise every day.  Every day.
  
• Drink at least 47 oz. of water a day.  Water is good.
  
• Update my blog at least one more time before the end of the year.
• Start taking my medications regularly.  The doctor prescribed them for a reason.
• Establish an actual sleeping schedule.  This is, of course, to be completed after the first goal I stated, because I'm going to be doing a lot of work.
• As soon as I wake up, get out of bed.  I don't care if I have to throw myself off the side of my bed (onto another bed on the floor, of course.  I don't want to kill myself), I want to be out.
• Decide whether to move my computer to my room or not.
• Clean my room.
• Clean my bathroom.
• Clean my stuff around the kitchen.
• Write that list of 500 things about myself.
• Shorten my "in between" times.  And by that I mean the times in between activities;  for example, when I'm playing a game and I say, "Hey!  I should do some homework!"  I actually do my homework, instead of putting it off for three and a quarter hours, and hating myself the entire time.
• Make at least five people smile a day.
  
• Never lie to anyone again ever.

All of these, I shall work on.  If I don't complete them, then at least I tried, but if I do, I have accomplished something.

Oh, and as for my personal life, I met this girl.  Her name is Kayla Martin.  Well, I guess I already knew her, but I think something good might just come from it.  I'll keep you posted.