9,862

When I wake up about six hours from now, I'll begin celebrating my nine thousand eight hundred sixty second day on Earth. If you're willing to assume that I was born here, and you're really good with math, calendars or at least the internet you probably already know that when I wake up it'll be my twenty seventh birthday.

As I'm prone to doing in early July, I've spent the last few days reflecting on the previous three hundred sixty or so and I've gotta say, they haven't gone particularly well. Nor have the three hundred sixty before that... nor the three hundred sixty before that... nor... well... you get the point.

Needless to say, this is a pattern that I'm very interested in changing. The point of this log is to turn my interest into an investment. This is a place for me (and my friends) to see my progress, cheer me on and hold me accountable.

While many of my exact goals haven't been formulated, what I want to achieve between now and day ten thousand two hundred twenty seven is conceptually very simple: grow, learn and be productive every day, no exceptions and no excuses. Sounds easy enough, right?

Well. If it was easy, I probably wouldn't have to do anything like this to make it actually happen.

I do have a few ideas where to start, but those are different stories for different days. This is day 9,862. I still have 365 days to go.