BSODmyself

Human potential gurus always say that in order to be successful at anything, you have to write down your goals. Thus, in the spirit of the New Year and to move myself closer to success, I’ve decided to make my resolutions for 2009 public. Everybody’s kind of familiar with the way this works, so here they are:

1. Not being hungover on January 1st, 2009. I’ve already met this one, since I confined myself to only one 40 on New Year’s Eve. Congratulations to me. 
2. Blog more regularly. And not the kind of stuff I’ve been posting over the last few months. I’m hoping to blog more often and present the type of insights on current events that only I can provide. I also want to focus on blogging about simpler living and those things that nurture the soul.
3. Get my financial house in order. Pay off my debts. Live inexpensively. Squirrel away some of it into savings — invest the rest. Set myself up to by some land (and give up the booze and the one night stands and other assorted tasks mentioned in the lyrics of Baker Street). Get a great paying job with some serious bennies.
4. Follow my bliss. Be genuine to myself. No matter how unpopular being me is. That is, follow my bliss, even if it takes me off a cliff.
5. Don’t settle for mediocrity. Anything less than my best is sinful and an insult to the greatness I’ve been endowed with (and by coincidence, the greatness that every other individual in this world has been endowed with).
6. Be creative (and leave something behind). Notice that I didn’t say be procreative. Anyway, I’m going to put some serious work into my novel project. I’ve always been interested in music and almost always wanted to try my hand at making music. I’ve been working a lot with video lately. So it seems 2009 will be the year for opening the floodgates and unleashing the perfect creative storm.
7. Market myself better. Not just me personally. Not just me professionally. I’m also needing to put a better face on some of my online projects (such as this blog and on my professional website, HireJohnny.com).
8. Do what Jesus wants me to do. In brief, he wants me to love God and to love others. That’s a big enough order to fill everyone’s future resolutions from now until the end of time. Without putting words in Jesus’ mouth, I think he would have extended that loving thing to loving myself, so this plank of the resolution is getting very heavy indeed.
9. Remember why I’m here. Not necessarily in a theological sense, but more of an existential sense. There have been a number of times in the last thirty-three years that I have come close to buying the farm, but didn’t. Was there a reason to this? Doesn’t matter — I’m going to kick down the doors and make a reason for my life and presence in this world.
10. Kill the Devil and strike the root. Yeah, yeah, yeah — both of my ever-present mantras make their appearance in this year’s list of resolutions. But both are important and haunt me in both my dreams and my waking hours.

Well, there it is. That should keep me busy, at least for the next year. I’ll be sure to tell you all how it goes at the end of the year.

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