Quite some time ago I stopped working on this project and stopped writing on this page. The problem is that despite being goal-oriented and having a time limit (the concept behind the Day Zero Project), the project lacked focus. It wasn’t really about what I wanted, and even less about what I wanted right now. The picture was too big. It’s great seeing the big picture, it helps you understand the puzzle, but if you can’t find the pieces you are looking for, you’ll never get it put together. That was my problem with the original DZP, I think. I just sat around and thought up 100 things I thougth were important to me in that moment, and expected that they would remain so over the course of the experiment. Obviously that was not the case.
So with my new project, I’m going to usurp the general purpose of DZP, and modify the rules a bit. I think the goal journal is a great idea, but I’m going to shorten it up a little bit. Instead of having a time limit, I’m going to simply say that the page will exist as long as it is useful for it’s purpose. Instead of picking 100 goals, I’m simply going to pick 5, that are important to me right now. When all five have been accomplished, I’ll pick five new ones. This way, I can pick the things that are important to me in that moment, focus on them until I have accomplished them, and then reevaluate and determine my next step. This also means my goals will have to be much shorter in scope. That’s good though. It kind of gives me a plan, and plans are good. You know what they say. Failing to plan is planning to fail!
The truth of the matter is that I have a lot of things I want to accomplish. For myself. For my family. For the sake of accomplishing them. To push myself as far and as hard as I can. Simply to see that I can. For me, that is the purpose of having a goal-oriented website. It is about setting goals and tracking and measuring my progress, and about sharing my experiences with whoever might be interested in them. It will also be a way for me to share things I’m thinking about; to write them out in a clear and well-formulated, if not eloquent manner.
I will only have two pages here, unless I find a purpose for another one. The main page where I write posts, and the page that shows the current 5 things I’m striving to accomplish. Hopefully, this page naturally evolves into what it should be.
I am so shocked that you updated! Actually not really, because you told me you were doing it. Still excited though! I’ll be more excited when you keep writing too!
Yay! You’re back!