Bripblap tagged me (and a few others) to make a public declaration. I believe there’s a great deal of credence to making a public declaration. Telling the world that you’re going to do something makes it much a harder to back away from that commitment. I remember back in middle school I would tell my friends who I planned on asking to dance so I couldn’t just chicken out and not ask that person. I no longer have things quite as nerve racking as school dances anymore, but there are still more than a few things I could stand to do.

So my public declaration is: I will not check my portfolio more than once a week unless I’m trying to execute a trade or creating a specific report. I’m cheating a bit here since I already acknowledged this was bit of a problem for me. Up to this Monday, I probably checked half a dozen times each day on an average day. It’s really dumb and leaves me feeling like a younger, Asian version of Silas Marner. I don’t want to be that guy.

Given that I’ve already talked (not in detail) about my first public declaration in previous post, I should make another. Declaration Two: I will start going to the gym 2 to 3 times a week again. I haven’t regularly gone to the gym since April of this year. My gym membership lapsed last month, but I have $200 available in my preventive health care account that I need to use by the end of the year that I can put towards a new membership. My office also moved over the summer and the Gym that I would be joining is in the building which might help this declaration.

And to further propagate the meme I encourage the following bloggers to make their own public declarations.

That’s it for my tags. I was never very good at tag in elementary school.