My very first post to this blog was on July 3, 2008, over a year and a half ago.  With this post I begin the last 100, the march towards completion of my 365th reason! Writing this thing has been a real labor of love for me.  It has kind of morphed into something I never intended it to be.  I started off with marketing ploy visions dancing through my head, but as I began to write the exercise turned into one of personal catharsis.  Sure I could have made it more marketable and likely have attracted more readers in the process, but you know I am happy with what I have done and I think that’s more important.  One thing I will “pat myself on the back about” is that what once was an idea actually became a reality….and that is sometimes a rare thing, especially for me.  I wrote a daily distinction today that addresses the long list of things I have thought about doing, but just never quite seem to get around to…it goes like this: Great ideas without follow through aren’t worth the paper they’re written on AND are a waste of the “grey matter” that conjured them.  All too often I am much better at thinking laudable thoughts than doing laudable deeds.  Ever get that feeling?  Wonder why that is?  Certainly doing generally entails a certain amount of perceived pain…be it fear of falling flat on one’s face, or some other conjured calamity.  But achievement without action usually just doesn’t happen in the real world we live in.  If it does happen for you, the results are usually a bit fleeting and certainly not very rewarding (take a look at what happens to most lottery winners…they end up poorer than they started).  So I hope (no, I expect) that in 2010 I will stop thinking so much and begin doing a little more. Oh, what will I do once I reach the 365th reason, you ask?  That’s for me to know and for you to find out!  How’s that for a marketing ploy?

Tags: 365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica, The Thinking Man

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