Day 1 - Beginning to Study Chess

I am setting myself the goal of being rated 2000, the FIDE elo rating for "Expert", on Chess.com by 3/1/2017.  

This is largely a human experiment I'm doing on myself to see how well I can use internet resources and tools to develop and implement a training plan that can take me to an expert status.  I chose chess because there are a ton of resources available online to learn it and measure progress.  

For March 2016, my goal is to learn the fundamentals and lay a good groundwork of tactics.  My top three resources, at this stage, are ChessAcadamy.com, ChessTactics.com and youTube.  

Specific goals for the week of 2/28 - 3/5 are to finish the Basic Planning and Awareness path for CA, reach a tactics training level of 1250 (from a current rating of 1157) on CT and watch John Bartholemew's Fundamentals series on youTube (https://youtu.be/h-JGqEiNs-I?list=PLl9uuRYQ-6MBwqkmwT42l1fI7Z0bYuwwO)

I may start to integrate some blitz games to get some game experience starting next week or the week after, but I think puzzles that drill home the basics are good to go over first, because it will give me study points for when I start to play.