Last December I was in Atlanta on a business trip and visited the Georgia Aquarium on my last day there. It’s home to the largest single aquarium in the world. The reason they wanted the biggest? To house the largest fish in the ocean: Whale Sharks.

Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLoud

In looking at my list of new year’s resolutions I decided I needed to really start with the whole scheduleing my time better piece. I am devoting the first hour of my day to consuming content. The next 30mins are devoted to creating content. That should cover my interweb usage on a daily basis. After that I’m 100% devoted to the family and the father/husband things that require my time and attention.

What about the other items on my list? Well I am starting by scheduling lunch dates with my brothers and date night with the wife. Lucky for me (and her) this month has a holiday devoted to love. Awwww. I’m already drinking more tea thanks to Adagio; that’s the easiest one on the list. Comics: I have a stack to rip into I just need to make some time I hung out with two different set of Phoenix friends this weekend which was awesome! I’m going to try and make it to more of the events I get invited to on Facebook, that will help for sure.

That’s it so far. Not bad for the 2nd day of the month huh? On another note, I’ve started a personal experiment that I’m keeping under wraps for the first month and a new video project. I’m thinking with only 1 video a month required that I should be able to hit my mark. I’ll keep you posted on my progress on all of this stuff each month. That should help cover the blogging more

1. write more blog posts.
2. drink more tea
3. read more comics
4. ride more dirt bikes
5. spend more time with my brothers
6. ride my bike more
7. hang out with my Phoenix crew more
8. keep in touch more with my out of state friends
9. plan at least one date night with my wife per month
10. read more news, local and world
11. SCHEDULE MY TIME BETTER

I think all of this is doable if I can stick to #11.

I put in an order with Adagio Teas and was so excited to open it up I thought I would do it with video. Check them out at http://www.adagio.com

Cen­Pho­Camp is an uncon­fer­ence designed to bring small, local orga­ni­za­tions together with the cus­tomers they serve. Unlike a typ­i­cal sem­i­nar, par­tic­i­pants are encour­aged to ask ques­tions, to leave ses­sions they don’t think are help­ful and even con­tribute to the learn­ing as they see fit.

I will be speaking on video blogging and video marketing and why both independent contractors and businesses in Phoenix need video on their sites.

Here are the details on the event:

Event: Cen­Pho­Camp
Loca­tion: Cronkite School
555 N. Cen­tral Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Date/Time: Jan­u­ary 23, 1:30 to 8pm
Web: http://cenphocamp.com

The man, the myth, the legend that is Chris Brogan is always writing epic blog posts that invoke thought. A while back he came up with a list of topics for us and I plan on going forth on this journey with video. This is the first topic on that list. Chris Brogan’s post: http://bit.ly/8LWnv7

Here is the first time Sierra rode her new bike with no training wheels. Now she can pretty much ride all over the place with no problems.

This made me think, could I survive being in a unfamiliar city with no phone and no wallet? Could you? I often say to people that I can pretty much be dropped off anywhere regardless if I’ve ever been there before and be just fine. Buuuuut, that’s with money and with my iPhone. To do that without either is fucking crazy. Now granted, I know a dozen phone numbers or so that I could get a hold of somebody to wire me some money and be ok; but it would still make life very difficult. The fact that this guy couldn’t get a hold of anyone that could send him money is kind of shitty and totally his fault. He mentioned that his flight wasn’t until Tuesday and to bump it up to today would cost him $150. It would seem that he’s going to be here for a while with nothing to do.

So, do you think you could do it?

My son Bryce tries his first sushi roll and loves it! This makes me very happy.

This was also the first video I shot and edited entirely on my iPhone 3GS. Pretty kick ass.

Now these videos are a bit different than my regular ones. 12 seconds requires you to be creative on how to capture what’s going on in a short amount of time. They’ll always be shot with either my iPhone or with my webcam and almost always go to Twitter and Facebook. The site itself is cool as well. They offer badges which you unlock when you shoot a video meeting a certain criteria. There is also a daily challenge and a random idea generator so even if you don’t have anything to shoot or talk about they can help you out.

So check out my channel over at 12seconds.tv or watch the videos in my sidebar via the 12seconds widget. They’re tiny nibblets of video goodness.