Not a unique idea!

This is not a new idea!

The Compact folks mentioned in the article can be found here.

Their blog can be found here.

I intend to pore over both sites for helps, tips - and possibly tightening the reins as we move along.

arc here -

It makes me happy that what we're doing is not a new idea at all.
In fact, it makes me really happy that what we're doing is actually very watered down compared to the folks in the article above.

A friend of mine, dkwan, even felt my goals were not even that hard to achieve, considering all the exceptions I made.

I'm really glad he pointed that out.

When I was writing my rules, I really wanted to go all out: shun consumerism, fuck materialism, flip the bird to the man and his retail.

But some things really cannot be avoided. I love my friends to death and while they wouldn't think any less of me if I didn't eat with them, or go on vacations with them, it's the experiences together that binds us. For my friends, I make most of my exceptions.

But it also can't be ignored that my goals seem easy to achieve. Gotta start somewhere, and I chose to start with a goal that I can attain - as opposed to giving up on January 10th.