I’m a self-improvement junkie. Consider me the eternal optimist of goal-making. My New Year’s resolutions are always a mile long. I want to be thin, successful, organized, generous, artistic, and still have time for eight hours of sleep at night. But there’s a fine line between goals and wishes. I wish for a perfect life, but that doesn’t make anything change.

So when Joe, otherwise affectionately known as Broseph, told me I had to approached me to contribute to this new blog, I knew the hardest part would be narrowing down which project to tackle first. That’s why I am starting off with a two-for-one special.

First, ohmygosh, I need to get organized. I work full-time at a school, and I’m a full-time grad student. So, yes, hanging up my clothes or putting them neatly into a hamper would take too much time and effort at the end of the day. I’m not going to end up on A&E’s Hoarders anytime soon, but Nate Berkus would have his work cutout for him.

Secondly, I want to lose 10 lbs by July 4th, then another 10 lbs by Labor Day. I feel like that’s a healthy time frame for each goal considering today is only May 25th. How exactly I will achieve this, I don’t know yet. I guess I could give up my diet soda vice. That’s probably worth a pound and a half from aspartame alone. That leaves 18 and a half more pounds to go! See what I told you about the eternal optimist bit?

I will try to refrain from making too many other goals until I at least get a grip on my disorganized, paper trail, clothes explosion, mess of a life around me. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t start thinking about other goals or start cutting out magazine pictures for a vision board. It’s probably a good thing that I can’t afford plastic surgery. I would turn into a hatchet face, real quick.