Monthly Archives: June 2011

I think there’s a general consensus when it comes to goal achievement and competitions in general that setbacks are bad. Losing is bad. Delays are bad. And above all else you never, ever stop.

This is how I generally operate. In almost everything that I do, I take this approach. It’s the mindset of champions. They give just a little more than the next guy, to have just a little more than the next guy. Any long distance runner will tell you that you aren’t trying to outrun the guy next to you, you’re trying to outrun the voice in your head telling you to stop.

I get it. Sage advice.

Advice that I’d be wrong to follow with blind faith.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about my brand new list (I love lists. I really do.) and how exactly I’m going to accomplish it all in the space of just over 36 months… A few items can be knocked out with one activity, a feat I am looking forward to. Some can be accomplished without making any significant changes in my daily routine, but others (like the work travel) are going to take more than a little planning.

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Marriage is dead. As an institution it is alive, but maybe it’s in some state of zombification?

I’m sure you’ve heard jokes about it as often as I have. References to the significant other being “the old man” or “old lady” or “ball & chain”. Almost every time I hear a discussion about the rights of same sex couples in relation to marriage, the phrase “just let them get married already so they can be as miserable as the rest of us” comes up.

Yep. Marriage as we have come to know it, is surely a dead thing.

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I thought I’d check back in on the quest to find a “higher”  higher education and let you know about some of the things that I’ve been thinking about over the past year. Yes, I’ve been doing this for a year now. Yes, I’m tired of it already. No, this leg of the journey can’t end fast enough. Yes, I’m crazy enough to consider another five years of school after this. But more on that later.

The topic for today?

How does where you choose to learn affects what you gain or lose?

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One of the goals on my 30 by 30 list is to travel to a major sporting event. I’ve never done it before, and it’s something I think everyone should do at least once. I’ve gone to matches in baseball, basketball, football, soccer, wrestling, volleyball… but never anything where someone walked away with a huge trophy under a sky dotted with confetti at the end.

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This post is inspired by a post over at Get Rich Slowly. It has nothing to do with Isaiah Mustafa, Old Spice, or diamonds, other than the fact that Mr. Mustafa did exactly what he set out to do in life and did it with style.

I subscribe to the Get Rich Slowly RSS feed and occasionally click through to articles that really grab my attention. The eye-catching post in question was one where JD talks through a list of 42 goals he’d like to accomplish by his 42nd birthday. The 42 goals in 42 months list.

Daunting. Inspiring. I want in.

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