Last week, I gave up all beverages except water. This week has been one of the hardest of my life. Seriously.
I’m happy to report that I made it to a week! No cheating. No coffee. No alcohol. No caffeine. No liquids except water. Let’s face it – the first week sucked. Really sucked. I had a pounding headache all week, I was extremely tired, and was probably a pain in the ass to deal with. Now, I feel confident that I can make it to the end of the month no problem!
I do not like to give up. Failure is something I do not like to admit.
Today, I will admit something I usually would never come out and say directly. I have failed. This morning, while looking at past blog posts, I came across one entitled, “52 Books”. At the beginning of this year, I made a goal to read one book per week for the entire year. 52 books. Originally, when I made this goal I thought to myself “oh this will be easy”. It was easy at the beginning. I was motivated and treated it like a competition – determined to win. 6 weeks in, I burnt out. I feeling obligated to read, and reading became more of a punishment. On week 7, I quit. From week 6 until today, I have only managed to read one book! Terrible! If I had kept up my pace of the first 2 months, I would be at 23 books today; instead I am 17 books short of my original goal. Today, I realized that even if I can’t attain the original goal, it was a stupid decision to just quit. To give up. On my walk today, I bought two new books. An hour ago, I just started reading, Small is The New Big, by Seth Godin which inspired this post. Reminiscing about my past goal made me ponder a few things: Is it better to strive for my original goal, by reading more over the summer? Or to simply read a book each week from here on out?Is it better to set attainable or to set goals that may seem difficult to reach?
What do you think?
This year I’m vowing to read a book a week.
If you have any suggestions of good books please let me know! 
52 WEEKS:
Writing down my goals and showing them to other people makes me feel more accountable for them.
Goals for 2010.
Chyeahhhhh (no particular order) :
Start a new business. #1 goal of the year
{check}
Write a blog post a week.
{check}
See the Arctic Monkeys, Muse, The Strokes, The Fleet Foxxes, The Fratellis, Lily Allen, The Shins, The Kooks, Voxtrot & Cake live.
{check Lily Allen & Cake}
No dessert for the entire year.
Run a marathon.
Don’t buy coffee anymore.
Try one new thing a month that I would usually not do.
{check}
Go sky diving.
Stop watching Hulu other than the Office.
To be able to speak Spanish as well as I can understand it.
Learn Italian
Go to Australia.
Read a book a week.
Meet Alex Kaprones, John Stamos, or Andy Sandberg
To not go on the computer more than 2 hours a days.
Never work for anyone but myself.
{check}
Learn guitar.
Take a day off every week from working out.
{check}
Start writing a book of some kind.
Quit staying up until 5am doing nothing.
Go to New York, Boston, & Scranton, PA.
Meet up with more couchsurfers in Seattle.
Get better at rollerskating and learn to skate backwards.
Go white river rafting.
Start sleeping.
Break my Internet addiction.
Things from last year I forgot to do and am re-adding to this year:
Go paintballing.
Jump off a diving board.
