ON FOLLOWING THROUGH

There's a whole lot of things that I'd like to do. For example, I have the GMAT Study Guide on the office coffee table right now. The plan was to take the GMAT in the fall and start on some MBA classes in the spring [Note: I don't feel like I need the MBA - I just want to continue my education]. I neither took the test or any classes, although part of the reason for that may have been an old friend (on whom I once had a ridiculous crush) telling me that business school was more headache than opportunity.

So that's one thing un-followed through by me.

In addition to the blog you are reading, I have another. I started it two summers ago with the idea that I would write a little bit every day and after a year or so, I would have a complete story. Not novel-length in terms of word count, but novel-length in terms of ideas. And don't get me wrong, I love the ideas, but after a while, the inspiration kind of just fizzled out like a fart in the rain, effectively ending the story after 117 entries.

That's another thing un-followed through by me.

This summer was going to be the summer I finally launched my own domain on the ol' Internet. I have registered two different spellings for it, designed it (on paper) and have done nothing with it since then. My grand ideas for movie reviews, extended versions of things like these blog posts, and even video blog contributions from some of my less-literate friends were going to revolutionize the web like no one's business...as of now, both of those domains still redirect to this blog. While there is still plenty of time to get that up and running, I don't know if I still have the gumption to do so.

Yet another thing un-followed through by me.

I don't know what it is; maybe it's because I get bored easily, maybe it's because I don't feel like I'm getting encouragement from outside sources (which I realize is the wrong thing to use for motivation). In any event, I see that I have two options - get bummed out by this and give up on other things I'm working on (podcasts, young adult novels) or get it in gear and start being more concerned about seeing things through until the end. Which path will I take? Eh, I'll figure it out tomorrow.