40th Birthday - Time For A Change

Today I turn 40.   As with 30, 21, 20, 18, 16, and 1, I don’t know that I feel substantially different than the day that came before it physically, although my body seems to have started falling apart about a month ago. 
The past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about how to turn my life around.  For the past several years I feel like I’ve been coasting on the bare minimum.   My career was in a rut, my health is in a rut, and my brain is in a rut.  I spend far too much time staring at a computer taking in information without processing it.   I feel distracted to the point of disturbance.
So I got the idea of trying to set some goals.   As someone whose strengths (according to the Gallup Strengthfinder) include Adaptability (definition here), I am not supposed to be into long term planning.   If you ask my wife, she’ll definitely agree with this.
So here, in no order, and certain to change, are the vague goals (that will be refined as I go) for making 40 the year of turnaround.

1. Read Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
2. Lose weight (10% of my body weight by year’s end)
3. Write everyday
4. Write a novel
5. Find a career that suits me and work toward that career
6. Reduce my tendency toward bad habits (being a slob, not completing tasks, not going to bed on time, etc)
7. Improving our finances
8. Maintaining this blog on a daily basis to talk about where I am.   
9. Farting less.   Seriously, I’ve been farting a lot.    
10. Reducing my stress level
11. Increasing my positive thinking while reducing my negative thoughts about myself and others
12. And perhaps most importantly, being a better husband and dad, perhaps simply by being a happier me.
13. Not worrying about signs of bad luck.   Like having a 13th goal.

So there it is.    We’ll see where this leads