Let's Do The Mind Wrap Agaaaain

Before you warm up your typing fingers, I meant what I said and I said what I meant.  I've been trying to wrap my mind a little farther around the goals that I have set for myself for the next year and try to find a metric associated to those goals that might gauge improvement.  As some of the goals are abstract - I'm not sure how I can quantify them. 

I have come up with a few baseline numbers for each goal, in hopes that I might use them to measure progress.  Below are the goals, along with some baseline numbers.

1.  Become healthier
     Current Weight: 254
     Current BP: 125/90
     Current shape: Out of, can do 12 push ups, 10 sit ups and 1 1/2 pull ups.  Can't
     say how fast I can run a mile, I'd have to run one first.

2.  Be a better Daddy
     Time spent per day with kids, avg: Approximately 3.5.
     Times that I have participated in an activity alone with one of my two
     children in their lives (4 years): Approximately 20

3.  Spend less time in front of a screen
     Avg time per day spent in front of a TV, Computer, smartphone, etc, avg: 7.5

4. Consume less, Save more
    Total Household Debt to Annual Income Ratio: 1.5 to 1

5.  Keep work at work and home at home 
     Avg wk week (in hours, on location including commute): 66
     Avg hours spent on  work off location, per week: 14

Not sure how I'm going to use these numbers yet to develop strategy - but I do know that I want to reduce most of them, and increase the time spent with my kids.

I've found some online tools that I'd like to explore as well.  If they turn out to be anything interesting - I will certainly share.

As far as the small changes today, I spent the entire day with the kids including a trip to the playground, lunch out with Mommy at a restaurant by her job and one on one time playing games.  I also had a salad for lunch, but that wasn't as fun as playing with the kids!  I also paid off all of our debt....that isn't a car loan, mortgage, school loan or credit card.  Which hopefully means I can start putting more money down on those debts. 

And to celebrate - since I've been singing it in my head the entire time I have been writing...let's do the Time Warp again!