Now that we have established what I have accomplished during the past 100 days, it is time to think about the future. Like the old saying goes, ‘if you fail to plan, you plan to fail’. I must admit that in the past planning has been a bit of a weakness. I prefer to just see what happens and adjust.

Unfortunately, this type of thinking can really get you into trouble. In fact, over the past 24 months, the ‘old bull‘ has managed to pack on about 30 pounds. Since I never really plan my lunches out in advance, I typically get into a crunch for time and just grab Zaxby’s, or something equally as unhealthy. Additionally, my doctor is so frustrated with me that he did not even gripe at me. He simply sighed and told me to come back in three months. Talk about demoralizing!

With that in mind, it is imperative that I do something about my shape! Yes, I know that round is a shape, but I truly need to work on my fitness levels. I have been so focused on trying to become debt free that I have stopped doing the things that are truly important in life. So here it goes…written goals for the all the world to see – all three of you

Fitness Related Goals

• eat a healthy diet (no more McDonalds and Zaxby’s)
• 30 minutes of cardio – 4 times a week
• free weights – 3 times a week
• drink 5 glasses of water and no more than 6 sodas (yes friends – I drink 8 to 10 diet cokes a day)

Personal Finance Goals

• complete a zero-based budget every two weeks
• stop the slippage that is occurring in our budget
• re-establish our emergency fund

Passive Income Goals

• write 10 articles for eHow and Infobarrel
• write 30 articles for my bum marketing experiment
• make 5 sales on new affiliate products not previously promoted
• get ChasingTheBull up to a page rank of 3 (currently sitting at PR2) – which reminds me, if you want to advertise here, just let me know
• write at least 4 posts a week here (I know I have been seriously slacking lately)

So there you have it. My next 100 days are planned out and set in stone.

What are your goals for the next 100 days? What do you want to accomplish by August 8, 2009?

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Chasing the Bull is my description for pursuing the American Dream. You read stories all the time about how people come to America with $5 in their pockets and the shirt on their backs that are now worth millions upon millions of dollars. How does this happen? Are these people genetically wired differently than you and me, or did they simply apply themselves to the task of making money better than we did?

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