mike the mountain

HUGE year for The Mike.

Moved from Ontario back to the Homeland, the Wild West, Prairie Paradise, River City, City of Champions and Festivals, a.k.a. Edmonton, Alberta. Brought the girl of my dreams with me of course!

Joined the family business, finally started building a real career like a big boy.

Now it’s time to actually start building a life.

I’ve been horrible about staying in touch with my friends here while I’ve been out East, so now I really want to reconnect with everybody. Facebook’s been a great start, but once my office blocked it I dropped out again. No more.

I also want to get a serious grip on my health and finances. I make these goals every year, but this year I’m putting a serious plan together, something measurable, something that I can track and hopefully stick to.

So without further ado, let me now present the first step of my plan, publicly listing my goals, to maximize all the wonderful benefits of shame and peer pressure:

1 – Body weight of 225 pounds (I’m a soft 210 right now, gotta lose about 10 pounds of flab and add 25 of decent muscle)
2 – Bodyfat %… (to be updated when I figure out what my current bodyfat is, and what it should be)
3 – Run 1/2 marathon (we loved it last year, might even go for a full this summer!)
4 – Zero credit card debt (one massive monkey I need off my back)
5 – $100 per month into my RRSP (to start anyway, gotta practice what I preach)
6 – At least one blog post per week

Challenging, but achievable. I’m looking forward to seeing how the year goes!

May the lessons of the past carry you forward to a new world of inspiration and amazement. In the words of one of the smartest and funniest people on teh webs: “You know how some people consider “may you have an interesting life” to be a curse? F#^% those people. Wanna have an adventure?”