Reblogging It

I’m not sure if this is cool or useless. I’m able to “Reblog” an old Blog post. Which is what you see linked below. Sometimes I think life is about a series of experiments. Now I’ll spend the next half-hour Google’ing and watching videos on YouTube about “why Reblog something.”

ReBlogged below is my opening statement from 2020 and my New Year’s Resolutions. It explains the “why” behind my annual quest to improve my life in big ways …and document it. The problem with Blogs is that you’ve got a public record of your failures, missteps, and lies. But, you also have evidence that you tried. 

My Blog is evidence that I want big things for myself. I want perfection. I want to be better. 

It reminds me it’s not silly to have hopes and dreams. At what age and at what point in life should you and I stop dreaming and planning and making goals?

I have a goal to lose 20 pounds and get back into a shirt I really like (currently I have too much gut to button it). I have a dream to finish three books I’ve started. I want to stop eating unnecessary sugar for 90 days and see how I feel. 

Why not? 

A very good friend recently threw one of my (our) dream(s) right back in my face and his text actually was, “haven’t we talked about this over and over? And it never happens?” And then he texted that he loved me and said I should probably give up. 

I’m 50 years old. I don’t think I’ve reached an age where anything is off the table. I hope when I’m 60, even if I haven’t done this one particular thing that it still won’t be off the table. 

It’s not like I spent the last few years sitting in my basement playing video games and not doing anything. I was living. Working. Parenting. Traveling. Doing other things and chasing other dreams. 

That’s OK. 

Here some things I haven’t done . . . yet.

• Run a marathon
• Run a full Iron Man Triathlon
• Day Hiked for a full day (and maybe ad an overnight)
• Go to England, France, or Poland
• Get in shape enough to play in a 50-and-over soccer league

Which of those things should I just cross off and say will never happen? The answer is none-of-the-above. If I wake up one day and start moving toward any of those goals, all of them still can be done.

That’s the lesson of this Blog. You and I haven’t done it yet. 

What is “it”?

“It’ can be anything you want “it” to be. Write a book. Make your marriage better. Find a new job. Drink more water. Stop getting angry. “It” can be anything. And “it” can happen now. Tomorrow. Or five years from now.

Never stop working, wanting, and dreaming about “it”.