Simple, Passionate Living

I’m not one to write down New Year’s Resolutions.  But 2012 felt different.  So I launched my experiment in passionate living.  In order to live passionately I will be (Adjusted on 15 Feb 2012 because I am not consuming enough bread to make the baking fit in with the no-waste philosophy):

-Reading (52 books in 52 weeks)

-Baking (24 loaves)

-Brewing beer (4 batches in 2012)

-Exercising a lot (Crossfit 3x a week, yoga at home 2x a week)

-Cooking (365 local, fresh meals)

-Learning new things (12 new skills in 12 months)

-Planning a locally sourced, handmade wedding (200 people on September 15th)

-Turning in my PhD Applications (5 of them). 

-Publishing 1 academic article

-Divesting at least 200 items from my life

-Buying NOTHING commercially made (well ALMOST nothing, some limited exceptions including:  books (of all kinds), one BKR water bottle, one Chemex coffee maker, and up to 8 others).

-Limiting purchases of hand-made clothes, makeup, or shoes unless it replaces something broken, tattered, empty, or torn. 

-and finally, making anything I could possible want (this means one of my skills will have to be sewing!)

This is about divesting and living a passionate, no-nonsense life.

The key?  Not to drop the ball on my work or life.  I’ll have to juggle all this with being a professor at Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business.  I teach development economics and more.  As well as continue my work with my organization,  Bridge Beyond.

Oh yeah and making sure to love that fiancée of mine (a 1st Lieutenant in the US Air Force).