Radical Transparency is, essentially, a form of management where all decision-making is made publicly.
How it is applied here is that this site is a very public, daily account of my progress towards my 2010 goals.
That means as I write my book manuscript, I include frequent updates of the content here.
That means I share my training plan and my daily progress going from Couch potato on January 1, 2010 to Marathon runner on May 30th, 2010.
That means I document here my experiences with living 365 Days with 100 possessions.
It means that anything I care to share about my personal experience goes here.
This is the first post on this site. As it’s the first Monday of the New Year, I began day 1 of my training regiment for the 2010 Buffalo Marathon. At 5′ 9″ and 200 lbs on a very small frame, I am a dismal mess. My ideal weight is 160.
And what did I do on Day 1? Well, I didn’t run. It so happens the way the training is structured, I do my long run on Sunday, followed by a day of Cross Training. Given that my body is so rigid and inflexible, I elected to do a Yoga Routine this morning as my Cross Training. It was a 7 Minute Routine that is part of Nate Rifkin’s Lumberjack Yoga program.
Also, I’ve been working on an Outline for a book on Simple Living. Today was Day 1 of writing and I decided that if I wanted to have a 200 page book written in a reasonable amount of time, I would write two pages a day separated into two short sessions. A page is about 300 words so, if I’m uninterrupted, I can usually blow through that in about fifteen to twenty minutes.
I do one session on lunch at work, and another in the evening after the babies are put down for bed. I finished session 1 today and it was a bunch of garbage, as most first drafts are, but this one was especially shitacular. I will be adjourning to a second session immediately after I publish this post.
