Chemical deficiencies

I think I have a chemical deficiency in my brain. I can't hold still, I can't concentrate on anything for more than twenty minutes, and I have thousands of thing I want to do, which means on any given day there are at least five very important things to do, which completely overwhelm me. I then put them all off until eight p.m. where I finally complete one thing and go out drinking.
There's an adage that says if you want to get something done, ask a busy person to do it. Which is why when you have all day to do something you tend to make a large breakfast, pot of coffee, shower, organize your sock drawer, watch TV, make a list of things to do, and then maybe, get to work on that thing you have to do, but if you're me, you most likely watch more TV, drink more coffee, go run an errand, organize your MP3 collection, check e-mail, go grocery shopping and make a killer afternoon snack.
I've always thought that the ony thing that separates ordinary people from highly successful people is discipline and hard work. Although the highly successful people probably didn't see the OT game between the Lakers and the Heat.

Working to live

Quick update on the job: I'm working for the yellow page people auditing contracts and entering items of advertising into the computer system. I doesn't involve much typing or writing skills. Mostly it requires learning a lot of stupid abbreviations for items of advertising, which also have abbreviations, and learning to use the computer data base to enter these advertising contracts.
It's not exactly fun, but it's not awful either. The pay is mediocre but at least I'm storing some money away. The lack of free time gives more importance to the free time I have, allowing me to work more effectively.
Great.

A perfectly bad idea

I did some holiday shopping at the bookstore today. Picked up a book for my friend entitled, "101 Things To Do Before You Die". Of course I read it when I got home. This is my kind of book. It's ambitious, and humorous, and oddly the first item is, "write a best-seller."
So I got to thinking. I'm known for being over ambitious, scheming and dreaming of outrageous things. Sometimes I follow through. I brought a racing motorcycle, which is still sitting in the garage. I never ran it, but I bought it. That's half the battle right. Most people have never bought a racing motorcycle. (Fewer have raced them.)
My life since I've graduated college (June 2004) has been a hollow disappointment. Sure I've had some good times, some good women, but my life's really isn't shaping up to what I'd like it to be. What I need is some focus, some goals, a good deadline, reminders, consequences, over ambitious projects, that kind of thing.
I'm think of taking up "101 Things To Do Before You Die" as a personal vendetta against the mediocracy of my life. In addition, here are some things I'd add to my personal list:
1. Become a motorcycle holigan
2. Buy a sailboat and/or sail to Vietnam (see no. 4)
3. Spend Christmas at the beach
4. Go to Vietnam
5. Write a novel
6. Learn a foreign language
7. Go on a coast to coast roadtrip across the US
8. Sit in a hot spring in Japan, clothing optional