One of my biggest problems is that I spend to much time preparing. I’m like that guy from Spaceballs who is always preparing to fire. Now I know your probably thinking, why is this a problem. Well let me tell you. Every time I have a brilliant idea, and yes most of my ideas are brilliant, I prepare to do it. Take blogging for example. I spent all this time creating this site so when the time comes I can blog. I researched different publishing software. I went to every damn blogging site on the net. I know more about blogging than {insert someone who knows a lot about blogging}. I even read an article on the Art of Blogging. How sad is that! I am so prepared to blog that it’s not even funny. In fact I’ve been prepared for a week now. But where are all my posts? I know I have things to say. I sit here and stare at my new blog day after day wondering, how I can improve it. I have an idea, how about writing something. It’s not brain surgery.
This isn’t an isolated case my friends. Oh no. Here is another great example. I decided to start running again about a year ago. But could I just run? No of course not, don’t be stupid. I had to prepare for it. I went out and bought a new mp3 player, new Nike running shorts, a new sweat absorbing sport shirt, and shiny new Nike sneakers. I carefully selected which songs would be on my new mp3 player. I drove around looking for the perfect spot to go running. That’s right, drove around. Guess how many miles I run a week now. On an average week I run anywhere between 0 and .01 miles. However, in the summer time that number rises to about .02 miles per week. Good thing I bought that sweat absorbing sport shirt. My point is I have to stop preparing all the time and just do it. I got that last line from Nike.
I ran across something I haven’t seen in years and it piqued my interest again. It’s called The Game of Life. Though it’s not actually a game. It’s a mathematical experiment. You’ll see what I mean. Check it out and make sure to read the whole page. It actually is quite fascinating.
If you feel the urge to dumb yourself down a bit today then check out these totally useless but sort of cool sites. They are courtousey of LadyGwen over at the DDB.
- Remember this piece of crap? I hated it then and I hate it now.
- Oh this is much better. So pretty…
- This doesn’t make you dumber, it just makes you feel dumb.
- This is just plain cool.
- I only spent 13 minutes of my life on this one.
I need to go prepare for something. See you in a month.
Tags: blog, life, rant, writing
