Week One

My goal for 2011 is to become a better rounded person in all aspects of life. In other words, I am starting down the road to being Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. This doesn't mean I want to become buff, rich and a know-it-all. I simply want to get some control back in my life, to be active and not just reactive. I want to get my finances back in control. I want to become closer to God and display the love of Jesus more and more often. I want to lose some weight, drop my cholesterol levels and become more healthy. I want to read books that spark an interest- both fiction and non-fiction. I want to become a better husband and father. I want to become more knowledgeable in my field and better my skills.

With all this in mind, I also want to keep track of my progress. I've never been good at documenting progress in life, so I will be using this blog as a way to force myself to keep track of what and how I've been doing. Much of the blog will be mundane little items. Other items will be my review and evaluation of foods, training schedules, products, books, etc.

In this first week, I began walking regularly and bought a step counter to keep track of number of steps and distances walked. I finished reading David Bach's "Start Over, Finish Rich" and started reading George Foreman's "Knockout Entrepreneur". I sat down and set some loosely outlined goals for my genealogy hobby to turn it into a "business". I set loosely defined goals for finances for this year, for household maintenance (and honey-do list) and for establishing garden beds. I made a list of books I would like to read and requested the first 7 from my local library.

This is just some of what I have done in my first week of journey On the Road to Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. At the end of each week I will post the highlights of what I have done that week- both successes and failures. During the week, I will occasionally post reviews, thoughts, ideas, "light bulbs", and other items that interest me, and hopefully will interest anyone who happens upon this blog.

Off I go to week two On the Road to Healthy, Wealthy and Wise!