Tenacity

I figure it’s time to throw something out here before the end of 2010. I did so last year, and all things considered, it went pretty well. I think I had a few goals in mind. For example, not deliver pizza anymore. I’m pretty sure I vowed to use all the cheat codes at life too. Not sure what that meant, but I beat a few levels and I think I had unlimited ammo.

I learned to ignore the big questions. I think that’s helped a bunch. I’m sort-of acting out of naïveté and a busy schedule, and as a result, autopilot-Zac does some pretty cool stuff. Let’s see, let’s see.. I started accepting small improvements! I’m not rich yet, but I’m not quite as miserable either. I still work for someone else, but I don’t work outside in the elements while starving my intellect.

Yeah. All-in-all, I dug myself out of a pretty low place that I’d been in since crash landing in Atlanta in 2007. But this year I’m going to focus on building instead of repairing. I had a few formal goals that I set and without going into them in detail here, I obliterated them. I even accomplished a lot more than they mandated.

Consequently, I’m setting more ambitious goals for this year with confidence that I’ll at the very least accomplish them. For one, I want to own a profitable company. That doesn’t mean I want 20 employees or $50k per month coming in, but I want something that is self sustaining and profitable, even if that means it’s generating $1000 a month. I feel like I have a great running start with this undertaking going into the year. I have two projects ready to unleash first thing in 2011.

Two: I will vanquish my auto loan. Probably the dumbest mistake I’ve ever made was buying a car on credit. Blah. But, I want to have that one taken out long before the year’s through.

Three: I will spend at least one month outside of Georgia. This is a little open ended. For three years preceding my crash landing in this shithole of a city, I spent at least a month abroad every year. I’d like to do that, but spending a month traveling around the States also sounds pretty rad. Thirdly, moving away from Atlanta sounds raddest, so that’s a satisfactory condition of meeting this goal.

Last: I need to work on my overall happiness factor. This one is pretty hard to quantify and set a goal for, but I do know that I spent the greater part of 2007-2009 in a pretty bad state of depression. With 2010 came a change to that. Somehow, I broke out of that rut, but it only lasted for about six months, and now it’s more of an anger issue. I attribute much of it to the fact that I still spend almost no time doing anything I want and consequently have no time to recharge my happiness batteries. I spent thee days outside Georgia during the summer, and they were the best three days I’ve had in the past three years. That’s saying something. I want to get back to 2005 level happiness, when I was backpacking through the south of France. That probably means this goal is intimately linked to number three.

Anyhow. Time to cut this short. The year ends soon and it’s time to go do whatever it is twenty-somethings do on New Year’s Eve.