[Introspection Day] Goals 1-5

Have and use a gym membership the majority of the days of 2016 (1).

Plan - Join a gym on Tuesday (literally today).  Go to the Gym 3 days a week and then walk with Julia outside of the house at least one day a week.  I will count working at home on the other days on a two for 1 ratio for 'majority purposes' which also lets me workout from anywhere as needed, though LA fitness, despite the grungy nature of our local place lets me work out from nearly anywhere, which is one of the reasons I chose it.


Complete a Short Film (2)
Things needed:
Time: September 2016
Location: Currently likely Atlanta
Script: Default is Dance of the Fausti or Making the Demon.  Script to be written after Revolution Number Eight.

The budget for this will vary between $1500-3000 which I can do as long as I keep my job and am able to have an extra pay period in July.  So far so good.

One of the three people I currently hope to work with on this is more or less a lock but another isn't returning my calls which drastically affects the scale either way.  We'll see how this works.  I'll likely start tracking this one the writing blog.  Maybe Sundays.

40 hours of research to find project 2 and join the appropriate Org (3)
I hate to double dip on goals but as I think on this, I am sorely tempted to simplify for excellence.  I'd rather do a few things well than lots of things crappily.  Having said that, I'm starting to get some ideas on this.  I could easily say I've clocked two hours on looking for this but sadly I suspect it will likely be one of those 'know it when I see it' but I do need a default if I can't find something that resonates more.  Right now I think something associated with the journalism project is best, but I don't immediately know what that is.  To have such a high priority goal be so ambiguous bothers me, but I'm not sure I have much choice.  This has to be done right, and for now that 40 hours will be devoted to brainstorming.

This is the great work of the fourth life which may be my strongest talent, so it can't be ignored.

Start the Blog (4)
This is going to be in Spanish which means the innocous duo lingo goal we have is very important.  It has to be at 100% before I start this and I also need to learn a lot of stuff about being an independent journalist.  But I at least have a plan.  I'm downloading Duo Lingo by Introspection Day and spending ten minutes a day until I get it.

This project will be somewhat secretive for reasons involving my paranoia.


Write 25000 words a month (5)

Its not happening.  A thousand words a day is nice if I am getting a lot more return for my efforts, but right now everything is literally entirely on my own fuel.  My current goal is 400 words a day though the arrangement with Kelly if that works will likely up this to 600-700.  Success at any project could easily up this of course.  Tehcnicallyi f I include blogs its more like 800 I suppose but I don't include the blog posts.