What is Carpe 365™?

“Carpe Diem” is the famous Latin phrase from Roman times that means “Seize the Day”. In other words, make the day count! Still a great wisdom, and still very true, even in modern times.

My phrase here, “Carpe 365™”, means “Seize the Year!"  One day at at time, every day. Committed.  Focused.  Taken.

Seized.

And that’s absolutely what I am doing: Starting today, Monday, January 2, 2015, and every day--right here on www.Carpe365.com for everyone to see--will be my personal daily experiences and assessment across seizing a whole year. Writing. Pictures. Video. Commentary. Thoughts. Setbacks. Progress. Success.  Both personally and professionally, although professional always really begins with personal.  Everything from family to friends to career.  All important.

Carpe 365™ will go much further than this as the year develops, but it all begins with doing at least one good thing for myself and at least two good things for other people during each day.  365 times.  Along the way, I believe my life, the people in it, my work, my career, and more will be affected positively--and that is the real plan, that by doing positive then further positive things will be done.  Sometimes, it's a simple question and answer:  "What is the value of doing the right thing?  That the right thing is done."

This isn't just about "doing good", however. The good things done are not a limit, but a beginning. A spark. A seed. And then a journey. To more. To a year seized, not just one day, but 365 days. Positive power, expressed across a year day by day is, I think, unstoppable commitment. I know I won't be stopped--and I say that with a smiling determination to all who know me and all who read this.  

And I know that, as Carpe 365™ develops over this year, other goals will manifest, and I look forward to that.  Very much! That's really part of the point, to find things to do from the things thought and done.

Part of me wants to see what I can achieve on my own, privately, but, as a writer, part of me also wants to use this public airing of my journey inside www.Carpe365.com to tell the story.  To you.  And to motivate me by involving you, the reader, in all of it by publicly stating my goal—no hiding from it! So, write me and/or comment, please (negative emails and/or comments may be deleted: thanks, but I had to say it). Give me all your thoughts. Your criticism. Your encouragement.

And, perhaps, you’ll also decide to take your own journey of Carpe 365™. If enough folks become interested, maybe we’ll start a small community. However, that possibility seems far off now, and I've got to start my own journey ASAP. Right now.

So it starts today, Monday, January 2, 2015. I am Keith Shetterly, and this is my Carpe 365™.

And I begin.

Keith Shetterly
keithshetterly@gmail.com 

Monday, 1/2/2015. Houston, Texas, USA
seize@carpe365.com
www.carpe365.com
www.facebook.com/carpe365
Copyright 2013 Keith Shetterly. All Rights Reserved.

P.S. If you want to join me in Carpe 365™, please click How to Seize YOUR Year. :)

P.P.S. Be sure to read the posts about each "Carpe 365™" day in the blog!  There are usually two posts, one daily about a relevant thought or a point and one weekly about the actions during each day of the previous week. Thoughts and Actions. And as you like them, then feel free to share them on Facebook, Twitter, etc.--I'd like more readers, if you can help. Thanks!

P.P.P.S. For my readers, this is something important about YOU. As to my friends, the people I know, and the people I will meet: Over this next year, you may read--or think you read--about yourself in this blog. Rest assured, I reserve and will execute the right as an author to protect you and your privacy by changing your description, your gender, and by remaining vague about events so that you are not exposed. This is not a true diary of anything except my own change and the year of it; the rest is truth, yes, but truth tempered with your privacy, which is very important to me.  So, join me, and know you join me safely.  :)  Carpe 365™!

P.P.P.P.S. Acknowledging the previous effort: Please know that I had once before begun this work and blog in mid-2013. A sudden and very, very difficult time in my life overcame this work, and if you were following me then you know it was very hard from a TIME sense for me to continue here--it was just a question of work and sleep and life getting in the way. I have returned to this path to redefine and recommit, and it will BE a year this time. As a way to better manage my time, I will be doing only a weekly recap of the "one for me, two for others" strategy of good acts each day. However, the daily inspirational blog will . I expect THAT will actually make it more fun. :)