Well this is certainly working well

By Aaron

My intentions were good setting up this blog, honest.  Regular updates, good content, all that sort of thing. 

Doesn’t seem to be happening though, huh? 

I think I need to allow myself to do shorter posts.  Not everything has to be worthy.

Tools

By Aaron

The first thing that I need to do to start getting things on track is to set up some tools. 

Everyone seems to sing the praises of remember the milk, so that’s what I’m trying first.  It’s got nice Gmail integration for when I’m near a computer, and Twitter integration for when I have ideas on the run.

I’ve just got to figure out how to read it on my phone so I can access it for the hour or so a day I’m not near a computer.  There’s probably a mobile version, but I haven’t seen it as yet.  Not that I’ve looked all that hard mind you.

I’d also like some finer control over the lists, but for the moment it will do.

For calendaring I’ll use Google Calendar, again because it just plugs into Gmail.  I already check Gmail as part of my morning routine, so having both my calendar and to-do list there might mean that they get read more often than if there were one separate pages that I had to visit on their own.

Early indications are that it’s actually working.  I just called and made a booking to get my dog clipped, something that I’ve been meaning to do for weeks now!

Why am I doing this?

By Aaron

So.  Now an introductory post, I guess.

I don’t have a bad life.  On the contrary, I’ve got a pretty great life.  A great wife, an awesome daughter, I’m not in *too* much debt.  I guess I could be being paid more, and that’s limiting my ability to do things, but that’s about all I’ve got to complain about.

Yet, I’m feeling out of sorts with myself.  Not in any specific way, just in a whole lot of little ways.  I’m out of touch with my inner geek, I think.  I could stand to lose a few kilos.  Or 10.  Maybe even 15.  I could be more productive.  I could definitely be more focused. I need to somehow "get my shit together", as it were.

I think basically I’m spending too much time catching up with life rather than living it.

One of the things I intend to do with this blog is to explore and document what I’m trying to do to get on top of things.  I need one central place that I can refer to, otherwise everything will remain scattered and I’ll be worse off than I was before.  For now, this blog is it.  Sure, I could do it all offline in a diary, but one of things that I do know about myself is that I’m lazy, and if it’s something that I’m only doing for myself it will be the first thing that gets dropped for someone else.

If I commit to a blog, then at least I’ve got a commitment that I have to uphold, even if it’s to an anonymous, faceless internet.  That might inspire me to persist with things for a little bit longer.

Suprise!

By Aaron

Hi all!

This is mainly directed to the people who are still subscribed to my feedburder feed.  All nine of you, according to the stats page.  Brand new blog, so I doubt anyone else will be reading this.  You’d probably forgotten that I was even around, let alone subscribed.  That’s what 2+ years between posts will do for you.

Brand new blog on a brand new website!  I finally got around to getting myself some hosting so I figured I’d point my domain over here and install Wordpress.  It’s not completely finished yet; I still have to tweak the template some, and get to grips with what Wordpress offers, but I’ll get there eventually.

My reasons for starting blogging again will become clear in the next posts (hopefully).  I’m not sure which direction this version of my blog will take just yet.  I’ll work that out over time, I guess, but the first posts will mainly be me sorting some things out in my head.

Stay tuned.