{"id":367,"date":"2014-11-02T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T04:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2014-11-23T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T02:43:49","slug":"day-1-starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Day I: Starting Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I failed to accomplish most of my goals or to make significant changes or improvements in my life during my first One Hundred Days.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to try again.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puuikibeach.com\/chamberofchaos\/?p=158#\">Day Twenty-Six<\/a> and annotated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=365#more-365\">yesterday<\/a> on the 100th day, here is a revised version of my list of things to accomplish in the next 100 days: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get the house ready<\/strong> for a real-estate appraisal and possible listing <strong>for sale<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete structural and aesthetic repairs, like painting and patching<\/li>\n<li>Clean out the clutter!\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce the physical volume of my possessions by half\n<ul>\n<li>Current number of boxes and storage containers: <strong>64<\/strong> plastic tubs of various sizes; approximately <strong>6<\/strong> odd-sized cardboard boxes; <strong>1<\/strong> storage barrel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>List the house as For Sale By Owner through a DIY Multiple Listing Service broker<\/li>\n<li>Set up a For Sale by Owner web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surferkitty.com\" target=\"_blank\">SurferKitty.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>SELL THE CURRENT HOUSE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Move away from Hawaii*<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>*<\/strong><em>Unless we win the lottery or otherwise can suddenly afford to keep living here!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Things to Purchase:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy a new house \u2013 paid for in full \u2013 no mortgage<\/li>\n<li>Buy a new car; or two\n<ul>\n<li>First car (Suzuki Sidekick replacement)\n<ul>\n<li>Under consideration: Subaru Forester<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Subaru Outback<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Ford Escape<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Honda CRV<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Toyota RAV-4<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Mitsubishi Outlander Sport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Second car (fun car)\n<ul>\n<li>Under consideration: Mini Cooper Cabriolet<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Mini Cooper Countryman<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Fiat 500 Cabriolet<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Mazda MX-5 Grand Touring Edition<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Audi TT Roadster<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Subaru Outback<\/li>\n<li>Under consideration: Rolls Royce: Silver Shadow, Cloud, &#8230; or a Corniche, if I can swing it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Buy a new computer (iMac desktop)<\/li>\n<li>Buy an iPad<\/li>\n<li>Buy a stylish dress suit (after I reach goal weight)<\/li>\n<li>Buy <em>one<\/em> more movie poster: <em>Cuban Rebel Girls<\/em> (1959)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resume exercising<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete 100 sit-ups and 100 push-ups daily for 100 days<\/li>\n<li>Lose weight \u2013 50 to 60 pounds (starting from 202)<\/li>\n<li>Improve cardio endurance (run ultra distances)<\/li>\n<li>Comfortably wear 30-inch waist Levi&#8217;s 501 regular cut jeans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pay off my credit cards<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Current balance (2 November 2014): <strong>$21,864<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find or create a new career<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a living at a job, profession, or business I don&#8217;t hate<\/li>\n<li>Make more money than I do now<\/li>\n<li>Have as much or more <del>free<\/del>\u00a0 non-work or to-use-as-I-prefer time as I do now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Write and publish<\/strong> eBook novels on Amazon (and other formats)\n<ul>\n<li>Complete <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/participants\/davidd\" target=\"_blank\">NaNoWriMo 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Publish my NaNoWriMo project on Amazon for Kindle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I<strong>mprove this blog<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Post daily for <em>another<\/em> 100 days<\/li>\n<li>Figure out how to make it look cool<\/li>\n<li>Refine the focus and purpose of the Chamber of Chaos site<\/li>\n<li>Improve my blogging style \u2013 make it more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdfitness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NerdFitness<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Decide if blogging is worth pursuing longer-term<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read five or more books<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish reading (and acting on) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adventure-Everything-Elements-Authenticity-Inspiration\/dp\/1401929605\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Adventure in Everything<\/i><\/a> by Matthew Walker<\/li>\n<li>Post my list of <i>One-Hundred Great Novels to Read<\/i>\n<ul>\n<li>Read some of the books on this list!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miscellaea<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice playing the ukulele \u2013 learn <i>Tiptoe Through the Tulips<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Practice drawing<\/li>\n<li>Resume posting photos regularly to Flickr\n<ul>\n<li><i>Include more photos in Chamber of Chaos posts<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So&#8230; what did I accomplish today? Even though I&#8217;m still feeling quite under the weather, I completed 100 pushups and 100 situps. Day One&#8230; <em>done!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I failed to accomplish most of my goals or to make significant changes or improvements in my life during my first One Hundred Days. I am going to try again. Originally posted on Day Twenty-Six and annotated yesterday on the 100th day, here is a revised version of my list of things to accomplish in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day I: Starting Over<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[2,69,68,49,38,16,3,25,66,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}