Chaos In Motion

bryanfraker:

I have some goals for 2010.  These are all the things that I hope to accomplish in the next calendar year.  I know some are easy, some are hard and some are…different.

1. Have Social Business Strategies take off enough for me to have a salary.  From what I’ve been told money is something I want and can be used for goods and services.  I haven’t seen a lot of it my first 22+ years of life so I always wondered what it would be like to have some.
2. Trim out some of the ever growing blubber that is my stomach and find a way to turn the stretch marks on my biceps into Herculean-esque chick magnets.  (Ok maybe not that much…I’d settle for The Rock or Terminator Ahnold.)  I’m not old enough to say “F%$# it!  The beer gut is the next step in the life of Bryan Fraker, so let’s get some 40 waist jeans lined up and hit Hometown Buffet!!!”
3. Figure out the female sex.  (This has been on my New Year’s list since 1998.  No since in stopping now.)
4. Keep absorbing all the info Nate Riggs is teaching me.  Whether it be in a meeting, at the office or just talking to clients at a Panera there is always something I can learn.  In just the month and a half I have been working with him I have learned at least 2500% more about social media then before.  I’m gradually seeing the light of how powerful social media really is and how if you want to survive in the world of business you need to embrace and master it.
5. Figure out how to brew beer.  I’ve always wanted to do it and if goal #1 happens…I may be able to figure that out.  I like spicy stuff…maybe a jalapeno beer? (Patent pending)
6. Keep up my strong dislike of Dane Cook, Tom Brady, Eddie Kennison, all celebrity gossip shows/websites, drunk texts I send at 2 am, George Tombaugh, seafood (people…please stop asking me to try it…it’s gross), Blind Melon’s “No Rain”, Goo Goo Dolls “Iris”, censorship on the radio, people with no sense of humor, people not driving the speed limit, cops who get mad for me driving faster than the speed limit, women out of my league (maybe if I hate them instead of buy drinks and ogle them they will like me???…), Shane Victorino, White Noise (horrible movie with Michael Keaton), hair that keeps popping up in new and unexpected places, iPod durability, the movie White Men Can’t Jump being true and many, many, many others that I may write at a later time
7. Stay up to date in social media.  Use Twitter more, update LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, upload videos to YouTube and Vimeo, upload pictures onto Flickr, write at least three blog posts a week on Tumblr, etc.  Practice what I preach.
8. Clean room.
9. Seriously, clean my room.
10. Stop being afraid of talking to new people.  This never was a problem until 2009.  I don’t know why, but it needs to stop.
11. Build stuff with wood.  So far I have built a beer pong table and a Cornhole set…honestly I’m not an alcoholic…I just played one in college.
12. Organize my computer.  I have three copies of the same song on my hard drive in three different locations.  Not good.
13. Figure out what to do with my hair.  It is just the worst!
14. Being transparent.  Something Nate has hammered home and I have embraced now more than ever.
15. Eat my vegetables. (Just in case my mom reads this.)
16. And lastly…just grow as a human being.  It’s something so simple, yet can be so hard to do.

Happy 2010 everybody!