The Search For Optimization

As 2015 came to light, I noticed a few things that kept happening to me. I
kept failing to do any of the goals that set out to accomplish. Every
December, I start to prepare for the coming year and try to set out a set of
goals. I break them up into three sections: Professional, Personal, and
Wild.The professional ones are pretty self-explanatory as is the Personal
ones. Things such as get a raise, go to the gym, are common things that pop
up. I wanted to make a third list of just things that are out there and things
that seemed to be borderline unattainable, but I was just getting nowhere. I
wanted to do something that would change my habits and maybe even room a few
bad ones in the process.I found that I have a lot of problems breaking my
routines and I get into these cycles where the bad habits and everything just
take over. There is comfort in the predictable sometimes. Starting SmallMy
goal was to start with one thing that I always had a problem with, which is
breaking down my goals into small pieces. I wanted to do something that would
be small enough such that it would make me do things that made me act every
day. I knew if I did something once a week or once a month, I would ever
forget or would take too long to find out results from it.Recaps of Some Past
Experiments: https://medium.com/@siwicadilly/30-days-no-
tv-d8ee77a5a03d#.uhn64otct https://medium.com/@siwicadilly/one-month-without-
meat-96d60e59971#.rtr0728nc What I LearnedThe first thing that surprised me
was that it was a lot of fun to carry out some of the experiments. IT allowed
me to find that thing that works well in my life and it made me take some
chances. I think that was the important part of all of these experiments. I am
a guy who loves routine and time, and just loves a clean schedule. But, having
to make myself more uncomfortable every day, I was ready to try different
things and would embrace things that would come at me instead of being
terrified.