The Beginning

It has come to my attention that my myriad of interests do not lend themselves to a single categorization, and that when I go on rambling tangents, the friends and family that follow my adventure blog do not necessarily need to be subjected to them.

Wow, that beginning is as clear as mud.

Here is a little context to the start of this blog. Four and a half months ago I uprooted my American midwestern born and raised self, and moved to South East Asia to teach English. What precipitated that, you ask? Surely that's a story worth telling. And in some ways, it is, but not here or now. Check out http://jenny44indy.blogspot.com/ if you'd like to read about that.

Over the last few months, I've gone through a couple of phases and back again. Call it culture shock, call it the quarter life crisis, call it becoming an adult, call it postponed grief, the list goes on. But the point is this.

Every day, you should do something, at least one thing, you consider important.

That's it. Wherever you fall on the spectrum - planning your life down to the millisecond for the next ten years out, or completely flying by the seat of your pants - have you done one thing today that's important, to you?

I won't take credit for this concept, and it's been formulated in my mind through reading other people's blogs, books, and many sources I probably cannot even recall to credit.

With this blog, I'm going to catalogue what I've done that I feel is important for myself, starting here and now. I don't promise daily posts. I don't promise to meet all my goals, or even set goals. I have mixed feelings on the matter of goal setting vs fly by the seat of your pants; and I utilize a combination of the two.

The concept of a blog is somewhat narcissistic in nature. I am not doing this for anyone else, I am selfish, I am doing it for myself. But, if you stumble upon this and care to follow along, you are welcome to.

The last point I will make: what is important to you does not have to be important to anyone else. It does not have to be grandiose, it does not have to be something you even share with other people. It just has to be something you are satisfied to know that you, personally, have accomplished.

Today, I started keeping track of what matters to ME, on this blog.