I recently began a 45 day personal challenge, to work on 20 different things over the next 45 days.

Though I will go into it in more detail tomorrow, I am just going to take a few minutes to reflect on the process so far.

I’m only 3 days into the challenge and currently the No’s are way ahead of the YESes. What amazes me is that it took 5 days to actually sit down and put the list together, and during those 5 days the only thing that really bugged me was that I hadn’t made the list, there was hardly any thought to the actual things that I was not accomplishing. Now after only 3 days I am getting frustrated because I have to keep writing NO on my list.  Today I decided that I wanted all YESes for the day, and I blew it.  I didn’t optimize my day, I let things happen, and now it is almost 1:00am and I am trying to get a few more YESes in.  It is amazing that an 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper with a list of things and some boxes can move me to accomplish things that have for the longest time been important to me, but for some reason I rarely pay attention to.

This sheet of paper stares at me every day now asking me “NU” are you going to put YESes or NO’s today? You had a lot of NO’s yesterday are you going to repeat that.  It challenges me, makes me want to prove it wrong.

Though I have intuitively known the power of writing things down, I have often been two lazy to do so. Imagine where I would be today if I would have started my list 10 years ago.

I think I might cry.

Tonight there is a lunar eclipse. What makes it really magnificent is that there is also a full moon. It will be the last total lunar eclipse until 2010.  Here in Toronto it is -13 Celsius or 9 Fahrenheit, but I was so enthralled by this simple natural phenomenon that even without a jacket I hardly felt the cold. I know it can be seen throughout North America, I hope if you took or are taking the opportunity to enjoy the spectacle. Though there have been many great artist throughout the millennia, I still think that the creativity of nature supersedes them all.

I just learned that you can only have a lunar eclipse with a full moon. I still thing its beautiful.

His ego is so big, he thinks he’s…

Surfing for some content ideas on Google Trends, I noticed that a popular search phrase was ‘who googled me’.

We always worry about what others think of us, we are often paralyzed with fear that someone noticed our mishaps, our imperfections. But google shows us the truth. Nobody is paying attention to you, they are busy paying attention to themselves. Have you googled your name yet? If you haven’t yet, you will before the hour is out. don’t for get the quotations around you “name”, this gives you a more precise search. But our self centeredness doesn’t end there, soon we begin to do name searches on our friends. No Read the rest of this entry »

If you are getting ready to read a post about products you can buy for that ’special someone’ this coming Valentines Day, click back or do another search on Google.

This post is my thoughts on a non or less commercial approach to the day. These gifts are free, and at the same time rare and priceless.

Here are my 4 Top Gifts For Valentines Day. Read the rest of this entry »