Start of the 390 Revolution

Posted on January 12, 2007 at 9:06 PM - Post Comment

I start this blog for accountability.   And if people read this, welcome to my journey.  I love to write, vent, journal, but my books full of goals and goal setting haven't catapulted me into personal revolution.  This is it.  All I want to do this year (and subsequent years) is not daunting.  But it is enchanting, thrilling and urgent.  I think of this as like my own personal "Oregon Trail" journey.  People set out to live a new life, face many fears and obstacles in pursuit of who they wanted to be.  The journey was arduous and often grueling.  Still they persevered.   Weight Loss/Becoming an athlete and financial abundance is my Oregon Trail.

I am also a social historian -- I don't think "real history" is about presidents, leaders, wars, battles and all that history-class stuff.  No, indeed, the true measure of a people are in their personal lives -- who they are, what they do, what they eat, what they wear, how they celebrate, music they  listen to, the stuff they cherish, the stuff they loathe.  This whole blogging phenomena is a joy.  We, across the world, are all social historians.  Back in the early 90s in college a friend commented in the computer lab that not only is big brother tracking our every click, point and typing move, but some day we'll all voluntarily let people into our own worlds.  

Think about it.

We live in an unprecedented time. 

Instead of a few choice Rembrants and Shakespeares, we are all artists and authors.  I'm glad to be a part of it now. 

What took me so long?  Fear.  Plain and simple, fear.  And in many respects fear has also been a major contributing factor in my ginormous weight gain the last 6 years.  Fear has also kept me in crap thinking modes:  Living in LACK.  Blech.  What rot.  I'm done accepting the wrong thinking that poverty is what I deserve.  ABUNDANCE. 

I now know I DANCE in abunDANCE.   Let the 390 revolution begin!