Give Up Alcohol
Go To See 12 Live Shows
Tough Mudder
Plug In Baby
Shave More
Swim 700 Yards
Learn Italian
Bench Press your Bodyweight

Resolutions

Learn Italian

Learn Italian

I want to complete the Michel Thomas Total Italian Course
Bench Press 1.5 times my weight

Bench Press 1.5 times my weight

I aim to be able to bench press 1.5 times my own ...
Shave More

Shave More

I get moaned at for not shaving more often.  Problem is I ...
Swim 700 Yards in 12 Minutes

Swim 700 Yards in 12 Minutes

I can’t actually remember the last time I went swimming!  I think ...

Inspiration

He can still go in the weight room and bench press 300 pounds.  He’s a man’s man.

~ Joey Price

One language sets you in a corridor for life.  Two languages open every door along the way.

~ Frank Smith

I hate shaving.  It’s much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I’m clean-shaven.  If you see me with a clean face, then you know I’m in the kissing mode!

~ Patrick Dempsey

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water.  On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

~ Bruce Lee

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

~ William James

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Have the dogged determination to achieve your goal regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think or do.

~ Paul J. Meyer

What we do in life…echoes in eternity

~ Maximus Decimus Meridius

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.  Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day.  Do it! I say.  Whatever you want to do, do it now.  There are only so many tomorrows.

~ Michael Landon

At first, people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done, and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.
~ Nelson Mandela

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Stop waiting for things to happen.  Go out and make them happen.

The moment you commit yourself is the moment your goal is assured.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

~ Muhammad Ali

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

~ Geoffrey Willans

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

~ Charlemagne

Somebody asked what my New Year’s resolutions were for my online work this year and I didn’t have an answer.  Now I realize I do.  I’m going to write epic shit this year.  And I know the best way to do that is to start by doing epic shit.

~ Corbett Barr