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Hello and welcome to my first post.  My name is Shannon Phillips, you probably know this since you can probably see this a couple places on this page alone, but I figured I would give myself a formal introduction.
Another announcement from Captain Obvious; this blog is all about my road to self improvement.  You can read a little about my life up to now in the "About the Author" section, but I will not be going to in depth about anything other than the present and future.  I just don't want to dwell on things that are in the past.  Anyway, enough with the intro, lets dive in! :-D

Current Goals:
Long-Term:

• I need to finish school with at least a bachelor's degree within the next 4 years.
• I want to working in a position in the computer/technology field within the next two years.

Short-Term:

• I want to be in a position to move into my own place by August 1, 2011.
• I need to improve my skills with php, learning object-oriented programming, as well as my ability to work with css, and javascript.
• I want to get into a workout routine to improve my physical shape.

So that is it for today's goals.  I'm not sure how this section will change over the life of the blog.  I'm sure that they will be added to, modified, or removed all together as things happen day-to-day.  We will just have to see how things pan out.

So what have I done to push me towards my goals today?  Well, I started this blog.  I think that just seeing what I am doing for myself will be great in pushing me to work harder.  Nothing makes me feel better about what I'm doing than seeing accomplishment.  It's also pretty depressing to let the whole world know that I didn't do anything for myself today.  I know I don't want to be working at McDonald's and living in my mom's basement for my entire life.
I'm also doing some reading on creating secure logins in PHP for the website I'm working on.  This is teaching me a little about cookies, something that I haven't really worked with before now.  I figured if I want to make the scripts and sections of my sites reusable, I have to make it something that a company would be able to use, even though it is just on a site for my personal use at the moment.
Between working on this and the website, I am reading.  Lately I've pretty much been reading articles around the clock when I am not at work, or working on something like a website.  A lot of what I have been reading is about improving things in your life.  I have found High Existence a great blog about a variety of ways to help improve your life.
Unfortunately, I have to work tonight, so I can't spent all day surfing the net.  I'll probably spend the last couple hours I have reading online and working on a computer, so I guess that's all I have for today.

Thanks for reading, feel free to leave any comments.  I know my grammar isn't the best, but I'm sure it will improve over time, so don't be too harsh.  I would love to hear any advice or ideas that anyone has.

Shannon

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