What’s with this 100 Days thing? It’s pretty simple, really. I started this site to try to catalog changes I want to make in my life. I decided, somewhat randomly, to try to keep track of what I accomplish over the course of 100 days toward making significant changes in my life.

I was inspired to start the blog by my friend Holly, who was telling me about her intent to begin a blog “about doing stuff.” It’s a discussion we have fairly regularly – she has all kinds of things going on in her life, she has entertaining adventures, she goes places, she accomplishes things, she has fun, while I feel, in contrast, that I rarely accomplish anything, and that every task I attempt becomes overly complicated, takes far longer than expected, and ultimately ends in failure. I decided to try to record what I do each day toward reaching my goals.

It would help if I had some concrete goals. Here are a few with which to start:

•  Get the house ready for a real-estate appraisal and possible listing for sale
  • Complete structural and aesthetic repairs, like painting and patching
  • Clean out the clutter!
• Resume exercising
  • Lose weight – 45 to 50 pounds (starting from 195)
  • increase cardio endurance (run ultra distances)
• Pay off my credit cards
• Find or create a new career
  • Make a living at a job I don’t hate
  • Make more money than I do now
  • Have as much or more free time as I do now
• Write and publish eBook novels on Amazon (and other formats)

That’s what I’ve been working toward for the past twenty-six days. Oh, and…

• Start a blog
  • Post daily for 100 days
  • Figure out how to make it look cool
  • Decide if blogging is worth pursuing longer-term

Today I accomplished the sum total of nothing toward any of these goals – beyond posting what you’re reading at the moment. I don’t think I actually have any real readers, but I did receive my first SPAM comment today! Yay, me! I’m a Big Time Blogger – I got me some genuine SPAM!

On the work front: at the elementary school where I work I rolled up a carpet scrap in the classroom and the highly motivational “reward” for students is now “tunnel time,” when they are allowed to crawl through the carpet tube. I must have been absent the day they covered this highly effective technique in my teacher training classes. The most worthwhile aspect of “tunnel time” is the expressions of incredulous dismay from other staff members who happen to wander into the classroom during these breaks.