Day 0: Today is the last day of 2018

Alrighty folks it is time.  If you have not been following or read my other posts it is time for me to lay out the official goals of 2019.  I have spent a lot of time brainstorming these and I am excited to finally be ready to share with the world what I will be accomplishing this 2019.


Social Media:

50 followers on Twitch
300 followers on Twitter
20 subscribers on YouTube

Personal:

Read 30 Books this year
Keep a Blog of my progress every day of the year.
Be more attentive to my wife

Physical:

200 or less pounds of weight (Currently 221)
Be able to run 3 miles without stopping
Blue Belt in JiuJitsu
Improve flexibility enough to stop getting sore hips after long work/game sessions


Progress monitoring:

I will be posting the numbers at the bottom of each blog post before I finish.  The goals that are more subjective I will not be posting about but I will let you all know when I hit these goals.



Goal Tracking:

6/50 Twitch
235/300 Twitter
12/20 YouTube
221/200  Weight
White belt/ Blue Belt

Day --1: One day to goal launch

I have to admit that I am running out of ideas for the build up of my relaunch/rebrand next year.  I look forward to the many things that I will be accomplishing and maybe I have taken too much time to try and figure things out rather than just do things so here I am trying to learn all the things that I can in such a short amount of time.  No matter what is going on with this writers block type thing I feel like I can finally say that I am here and ready for the beginning of the new year.

Since I started these mini blogs a couple of days ago I have kept up on my daily Japanese lessons, it is so difficult to try and learn a new alphabet, especially when it is so completely foreign to me, but I am having fun learning and growing and look forward to the 365 days of growth I will be experiencing.  I have also posted these updates every day leading up to the new year and have decided I want to keep chronicling my journey on a daily basis.  Even if I do nothing to build content or to grow my hobby I will post here with a run down of the day and what I will be doing.  I have really enjoyed the time to reflect and grow with my content.  I have also been reading through the Steve Jobs biography and even though he was a jerk in his early life I have to admit the goals that this book has developed in me is worth the price of reading about such a jerk.  I know that he redeems himself in the end and that the 1980s were only a part of his empire but still he was mean.

I have also done something I thought I would never do.  I downloaded Swarm by Foursquare and have been using that to help with my social media marketing.  I know that this is not the best idea as it can lead to a stalking type situation but I do enjoy the fact that I can share if I choose to and use it to interact with others in meaningful ways.  We shall see how long I end up using it, or letting it post to social media I should say.

I am actually all set up for my launch tomorrow and am happy to say that tonight I will be going to the Botanical Gardens for their light display.  It should be an amazing thing to do and I look forward to the walk to get my mind off of all the things that I should be doing to market this blog/twitch/YouTube/Twitter campaign.  I think I have done the most that I can do and from here on out whatever happens will happen.

Goodbye 2018 and Hello 2019.  I hope you all have a wonderful new year and use it to grow in some way.

Come back tomorrow for the official 2019 goal list.

Day --2: Two Days till the New Year

This mini project of mine has been a lot of fun as I move towards starting my journey next year.  I hope that you all have been enjoying reading these small posts as much as I have enjoyed writing them.  Today is going to be a smaller post but one that is just as important as the previous ones have been.  I look forward to the challenges of 2019 and I look forward to the growth that I will experience, but I am also very excited for the opportunity I will have to read some of the greatest minds that have been released.

When I was younger I was always told that a wise man learns from his own experiences, the wiser man learns from others experiences.

I need to constantly remember that as I move into uncharted territory with my blogging, vlogging, video making, social networking, and streaming.  I do not need to reinvent the wheel, I just need to make it work for this community.

I am starting out my journey through reading the Steve Jobs biography.  He has become a great model for me in how to chase your dreams and create your own realities.  I look forward to finishing this book and looking at some other business leaders in a way that will help me to move forward with my dreams.  I do not know how far reading alone will take me but I know that through hard work and having a set of goals to get me there.

Some of the steps that I have been trying to get into the habit going into the new year that I hope to continue and improve on once the new year begins is going onto social media sites and commenting on others more than posting my own stuff.  It has been a lot of fun creating communities of people that I interact with rather than just posting my own stuff and hoping that I get noticed.  That leads me to a point that I want to make....     As I increase my brand on the internet I don't ever want to forget the hard work and networking that was required in the beginning.  I want to continue to pop into other peoples streams, YouTube channels, and twitter feeds and keep interacting with folks on all levels.  I think the biggest turn off is when people forget who they are as they grow and no longer relate on a personal level.  

Tomorrow is going to be the last brainstorming session before I start my 365 days of blogging.  I want to thank you all for coming in and reading my rants and raves about this new project.  I am doing this for me but the support that I have been getting has been so great that I can't even imagine doing it without you all.  Side note aside tomorrow is the last brainstorm day of how I'm going to work through some of my goals, after that on Day 0 I will be posting my official goals for the year as well as a plan for how to change goals for every week of 2019.

On January 1, 2019 I will be launching this project with a renewed passion and seeing how far it will really go.  Like Nas Daily I will be setting a goal for 365 days of content and see how far I can go.  I believe that we will be able to see a lot of growth together and I look forward to you all being along for the ride.  

Let us all make 2019 the most blessed and magical year that we have experienced.

Day --3: The real resolve for 2019

I was sitting in bed today thinking about all the things that I want to accomplish next year.  I realized that I had wanted so badly to do so much that would get my name out there and then I felt bad for feeling the need to be more popular or famous or whatever.  I sat thinking about how I wanted to build a community and how I wanted to go and make a difference and I realized that one of my biggest strengths is in making people feel welcome no matter what the circumstances might be.  So here are some more things that I will be trying to accomplish this upcoming year.

1. Community

I want to build a community of people on the internet that is not all about tearing people down or making people feel that they are not welcome in the communities that we are developing.  I want to stream with likeminded people, and interact with people that will be working to make the world a better place for all around.  That being said I will not be allowing any political talk, homophobic or transphobic speech, or anything else that is not polite in society to take place across any platform that I will be on.  I may not be able to make a lasting change but I feel that I will be able to make a small change in the overall gaming community.

2.  Environment

I want to help change the pollution levels that are around my city.  One of the hardest things to witness is the brown cloud that is constantly flowing around our buildings and our foothills.  I will be more aware of the amount of time that I am using resources and will be doing monthly or maybe biweekly neighborhood cleanups to make the world a better place for any and all that wish to join in.  I was blown away by an article I read on Japanese Times a couple months ago where communities would not be cleaned by municipalities but would instead be cleaned by the people that lived there.  I hope that we as a society will one day work just as hard to keep our neighborhoods as clean as our homes.

3.  Personal Growth

I feel that I have spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to accomplish that would maybe make me feel better about myself, I realize that I am not going to be super happy just by working on what people think about me in an online environment.  That is why I have a goal of reading 30 books in 2019.  I also started to learn Japanese on duolingo the other day and I have decided that I will be working hard to try and at least become somewhat competent with that language so that I can cross traveling there off my bucket list.


Thank you all for taking the time to stop by and join me on my journey to better myself this upcoming year.  I think we will be able to accomplish much and I look forward to growing with you all as we push to become a greater force for good in this world.

Day --4: Setting the stage

I have still not done much for the setting up of my goals for the year of 2019 but I took today to spend some time with my wife at the Phoenix Zoo.  I have to say that even though I did not do anything to build my personal brand or to get myself set up for the perfect launch.  I did however take the time to utilize the different social media sites while I was at the zoo to test out some of the tools that I could use to help my business grow.

Today:

I was extremely happy to go do a mini date day with my wife.  I loved seeing the different animals and watching the people that were around me doing their thing.  We had the opportunity to go to the zoo with some friends that had young kids and there is something magical about seeing the zoo through a child's eyes.  If I could capture that magic and apply it to my video game streams this year I feel that something great could happen.

I am still trying to figure out the best way to set up this site.  I think that I will have a running commentary on the goings on of the day as well as the goings on in my overall goals.  I look forward to moving forward and as the new year gets ever closer to us I can't help but feel excited for the opportunities that 2019 will bring us.  My wife is telling me that by the end of 2019 she hopes to be making 10k a month, me I just want to be happy and feel like my life is going in a direction that I can be proud of.

No matter what next year brings I promise you all that I will continue to post this experiment and share with you the joys and pains that will come with putting myself out there.

Here is how my closing is going to look....

New Followers on Twitch:  0/50
New Followers on Twitter:  1/100

Overall feeling of the day:  Average (Nothing amazing happened but nothing bad happened either.  I would say that this day was one of those days where life just moved forward.)

Day - 6: Goals for 2019

Okay folks it is time to get serious about what I want to accomplish with 2019.  I know that it is a little early for the new years resolutions to come about but I believe that it is always good to be setting goals and making things happen.

I have decided that this coming year is going to be the year of the stream.  I have always had a lifetime goal of figuring out how to make my passion for gaming become a little more than a hobby.  Yes I know that many of you that are reading this are probably rolling your eyes and saying "oh great, another wanna be streamer looking for a payout"  I would be doing the same thing if I were in your shoes but I plan on doing it differently.  What I mean by this is going to be the year of the stream is that I will be pushing myself to put myself out there.  I have always been a little on the shy side and a total introvert, but I will be pushing myself to not only stream games but interact with as many random people as I can.

This year of the stream project of mine is more of a way to get myself to interact with life.  I want to be able to go outside and talk to people in the streets and not get tongue tied while doing so.

So now that you know the nature of the project here are some of my specific goals for the 2019 year:

• Design a Logo, for branding purposes
• Increase my Twitter Following to 300 (a lot harder than it seems as many people seem to follow you just for follow backs)
• Utilize my Instagram account for more daily posts
• Maintain a daily blog to talk about the ups and downs of putting yourself out there
• Set a streaming schedule of one day a week minimum and stick to it.
• Interact with other streamers in the game genres that I will be playing and make some connections.
• Practice to become one of the best gamers that I can be in the games that I play.
• Read some self help books to learn more about acting, and the art of improv.
• 50 followers on twitch
• 20 YouTube subscribers

I feel that if I am able to accomplish these goals during 2019 I will be better equipped to take my life one step closer to my ultimate goal of making my hobby something I am able to benefit from.  Thank you all for joining me on this great journey.  I look forward to improving myself with you all this 2019.