It’s Personal – A new Decade and I know what I want!
I’ve done a pretty good job of doing and getting what I want in and out of life. It didn’t start out that way but after practicing for 10 years and finally learning how to read in my eleventh and twelfth year I learned that I really could do almost anything I put my mind to. Unfortunately I think I let others define what was okay and what I should do for most of my life. But once I decide there was something I wanted, even if it was defined by others I generally did it.
About three years ago I was doing a job I thought I hated, I was smoking, and I generally was not as happy as I should have been. After all I was employed at a nice salary, I had a beautiful family, and I was living the dream as defined by so many. The problem was that it wasn’t my dream. But that wasn’t the only problem, actually it was really just a small part of the problem. I didn’t realize it then because I thought I knew what I wanted and thought I had it all, well almost. I was pretty depressed and a friend at work noticed. He handed me Tony Robbins cd program Personal Power II. I told him I thought the guy was a flake, but agreed to listen to the cd’s.
The CD’s were incredible and inspirational. I already understood that you could set and achieve goals but I hadn’t really done it previously for myself. I also hadn’t really thought about who I was or wanted to be. The biggest gift the cd’s gave me was that I realized that I really didn’t know what I wanted out of life. So I’ve since spent the last three years figuring it out.
This is who I am:
I am a nice, honest and straight forward and spiritual guy. I care about people deeply and want the best for them. I know that anyone can do just about anything they set their mind to including my wife, my kids, and myself. I am an incredible husband and dad and I will work my rear off to get better every day. I love business, technology and writing and I do it often. I live a healthy life style so I can get the most out of life. I do my best to give back to the community locally, nationally and internationally. I motivate people through writing, speaking, interacting and connecting on a deep personal level. I have no use for superficial relationships and I don’t care if I’m judged by others because I know who I am.
Knowing this about myself allows me to set goals and achieve them. Here are some of my big Goals for next year. Although I have been working on them for a while already and I don’t consider them New Year’s resolutions.
- Publish Haley’s book “I’m Not Weird” – It’s still waiting for the formating at the publisher. I hope they move quickly so it can be published before the end of this school year.
- Complete and publish The DADvocate Project. – I’m very excited about this project. It’s going a bit slowly right now but starting next week we’ll put the full force of a concentrated effort behind it. I’m writing out specific steps to ensure we reach the 1000 dad’s quickly. But if you are a blogger or have influence over Dads please send them over to The DADvocate Project I appreciate the help.
- Running – I’ve started training for the Nashville 1/2 marathon in April. You can follow my progress over at my friend Todd Schnick’s blog Intrepid Runner
- Bring my wife flowers every Friday. I love her very much and want to express it. I will also be planning a big anniversary present for in 2011 for our 10 years.
- Have Haley kick ass leading up to and through the operation. She has a long road that will be difficult to travel but I know she will Kick ass this year. – Don’t tell her I said ass or else I’ll owe her a daddy dollar. If you want to learn more about daddy dollar’s check out Cast of Dad’s Episode 3.
I have a number of other goals but this post is getting way too long. So what are your goals? Who are you?
Do you know?
I attribute this post to 1) The new year, 2) Seth Godin Seven Years Gone 3) Drew @ Benspark.com’s post Looking back looking ahead 4) Buck Daddy’s post Closing out 2009 and looking ahead to 2010.
