I haven’t posted much lately frankly because I’m lazy, it’s hot, etc. Excuses, excuses. It’s difficult having so much time on my hands. I should split time into 30 minute units like Hugh Grant’s character in About a Boy. Shower – 1 unit. Buying groceries – 2 units. Watching The Bachlorette finale – 6 units (seriously, it was 3 hours).

In today’s post, Chris from the Art of Non-Conformity writes about how to get started on doing big things in our lives and how to define it. Find his article here. The last two big things I did were travel Europe on my own for a month and produce my first short film.

On this blog, I write a lot about eating/cooking cheap food, sneaking into movies, and visiting museums on the cheap. These are fun things (hence the title of this blog), but how do I (and we) build upon our fun and turn it into a significant point in our lives?

I’m writing this on the heels of the Olympics which is only a few days away. Going to the Olympics is a BIG THING. How did those athletes get there? First, there was identification of the goal, and then there were the little things that got them there — waking up at 5 AM to swim laps at the pool before school begins, giving up junk food to fuel the body better, shoot free throws 100 times after practice is over. Now, it’s time to decide on my next big thing.

Ryan Lochte — Olympic swimmer and just because.