How the “King Of Kong” will change my life in 90-days

So I'm watching a documentary called "The King of Kong" which is a movie about Steve Wiebe, a middle-school science teacher and Billy Mitchell, a hot sauce company business owner that compete for the Guinness World Record on the an old arcade game called Donkey Kong. What struck me most among the many contrast between the characters in the story was what their lives had become outside of the video game world. Steve is a guy that has a great marriage with 2 children, has a master's degree, is a teacher, plays drums, piano and is vying to be the best Donkey Kong player in the world. On the other hand you have a cast of characters that appear to have very little else in their lives. Steve submits a video of his high score as proof he had won the title to a company called Twingalaxy, the official score keepers. However, this was not good enough; he needed to be vetted before they could accept his score. They have strict processes and standards that everyone must go through before a score can be announced officially. The climax of the film takes place in an arcade where Steve comes to prove in public that he is the real champion. After hours of grueling game play he tops the best score, only to be beat 10mins later by a poorly recorded video submitted by Billy Mitchell with no vigorous investigation or scrutiny. It was enlightening to see Steve Wiebe plunged in a world of people that had lost prospective of the world and see how they fought to protect their long time champion even when going against the very principles they claimed to believe in.

After watching the film I kept thinking about how even if Steve didn't get the title he still had a whole life full of accomplishments as opposed to the others who seemed to have little else. I began to wonder what I have been doing with my own life and have I been living life or letting it pass me by. I thought about all the things I imagined doing when I was growing up. Exciting things, like becoming an ace pilot, racing cars and motorcycles, becoming a championship fighter and a million other things that I thought would be really cool. I then got this great feeling about life itself, the feeling I get when I'm on vacation somewhere I've never been. It's a new place, it's exciting and fun. I'm just visiting so my focus is on all the fun and exciting new things I'm going to do. I never lose the perspective that my visit is not permanent, I only have a short time before I must leave and return from where I came so I make the best of it. I'm not feeling fear, frustration and worry. I thought to myself that life should always be this way; it should always be an exciting adventure, and never a bore. I should be getting out of bed to do the things I want, looking for the circumstances I want and if I can't find them, make them. So with this I've decided to hack my life, and start going on my own adventures and take on new challenges. I read somewhere that it's not just about what you do with your time, but what you do with your spare time that counts the most. So my goal is to take on new challenges that will literality change my reality in my spare time and doing it within 90 days. The official website will be Ninetydaylifehacker.com which will serve as the main site for this project; this blog will be my daily Journal as I go through my 90-day experience and will play an integral role in the project and my personal success.

The First Challenging Adventure
I have tons of ideas on all the things I can do with this project; however the one large barrier right now is my weight, 330 pounds of it. So my first 90-day Lifehack will be to reduce a significant amount of my weight in this time period. I have set a very big goal to achieve by the end of 90-days, which when I reach it, my life will have changed. I have been over weight now for a good 7 years and needless to say it has had a huge impact on my life. Today is February 20th 2008 and it’s time to get started.

I'd like to tip my hat to the following truly great websites:
Zenhabits.net
4-Hour Workweek.com
lifehacker.com