Well today is Halloween which means one thing… OK so it means a lot of things (free candy, girls in risque outfits, and the end of October). The 31 on today’s date means it’s time to review my goals.
- 53 Weeks of Drewy Goodness. October was filled with performing at the New York Underground Comedy Festival, completing a daily to-do list, surviving a challenging week, and reviewing Personal Development for Smart People, and tomorrow I finish project number 44.
- A Joke a Day. I passed the 300 mark this past month, with a few favorites of Alex Trebek, reading the dictionary, and wanting to be a plumber.
- Perform Comedy 53 times. With 8 performances in October (including earlier today), I only have 4 more performances to go to reach my goal. Good thing too since we’re heading into the holiday season.
- Get over 100,000 views on YouTube. This week’s goal is to make a video, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to post it to YouTube since it’s part of a competition. Unless something drastic happens, this one may not get completed.
- Publish an Article. I continue to write Articles, but I need to take the time to look at what it takes to get published.
- Break into Top 10 Internal Blogs at P&G. The top 5 is my mainstay. Adding an email listserv has been a huge help.
- Start a business. Well we didn’t quite reach $1, we’re sitting at a whopping $.27.
- Have 13.5″ Guns. I had a good month, getting the arms back up to 13.25″.
- Never hit Snooze. Aside from a few lapses, I’ve been doing OK with this (though I still struggle on the weekends.
- Help Someone Achieve a Goal. I’m close to helping someone else achieve a goal, I just need to get confirmation.
Holy crap- only 2 months left in 2008! I have some ground to make up in a couple of these goals. Hopefully with the holiday breaks I’ll be able to get some stuff done- we’ll have to see. November’s goal is to finish up the rest of my stand-up performances so that I don’t have to perform in December if I don’t want to.
Personal development blogger, Steve Pavlina recently published a book called “Personal Development for Smart People.” As a way to promote his book, he offered to send a free copy to any blogger willing to review his book on their website.
I happen to be a blogger, I enjoy free things, and have an interest in personal development, so it seemed like a no brainer to join the other 400 bloggers and write a review. This week’s task is to finish reading the book and write a post about it, a la The Inner Game of Tennis from awhile back.
Success = A review of “Personal Development for Smart People” by Steve Pavlina.
Surprisingly, the week wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it might be. It certainly was an interesting challenge of working for 2 hours, then improvising for 3, then going back to work, but it was a little more manageable by identifying my motivating and demotivating triggers.
As it turns out, this upcoming week will likely be even busier than this one, but at least I have one week of the interesting schedule behind me.
I’ve gotten pretty good at capturing all of my “to do” items in Outlook 2007. The problem is that I’ll often assign them a due date that I never actually hit. I’ll generally do a weekly review and assign tasks for the next week, and each week I have to re-assign new dates to all of the tasks that I didn’t do previously.
This week’s challenge is to complete everything on my daily tasks lists each day. The challenge will be guessing accurately how much I’ll be able to accomplish each day.
Success = Completing all items on my daily task list each day.
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a competition, but it was good to get back on stage for more than just an open mic. My set was pretty solid, though not good enough to beat a very funny girl with a great character who became the eventual winner.
Thinking back, I wasn’t really all that happy with my set selection. I’m generally a very clean comedian, but tonight I did more of my PG-13 material (I don’t think I have any R stuff). I buckled under the assumption that the audience would be more inclined to like that type of humor, and in doing so, went away from a majority of what my set has become over the past couple of months.
All in all, good to do the competition. Performance pretty good, but choice of material could’ve been better. The set list is below (which unless you know comedy and have seen my set, will mean absolutely nothing):
- Subway Teabag
- 12 Year Old
- 2 Decades
- Competition
- Doghouse
- Vegan Friend
- Facebook Relationship
- Text Breakup
- T9 Predictive Text
- Text Alphabet
