January 5, 2008
Resolutions are lame
I’ve spent the past week thinking about last year and how I want this year to be different. I realized very early in this thought process that I have no idea what my New Year’s Resolutions for last year were, but I’m reasonably certain they didn’t stick. So I’m not making resolutions this year; they never last.
Instead, I’m starting a list of things I’d like to do to improve my quality of life. There’s no pressure with this list; if something isn’t working out, then it either isn’t improving anything or I’ll simply try harder.
So, with that in mind, here’s my first pass at this list:
- Slow down
- Learn a new programming language
- Budget better, save more
- Write (at least) one original article per week
- Read more
- Commit to a todo system (regardless of which one)
- Consume less frivolous media (less RSS, for example)
- More music, less TV
- More time with family/friends, less with my computer
I don’t think it’s an unreasonable list, and hopefully I can look back at this in a year and think “Well, I’ve done all those things…now what?”
Post Notes
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Direi che contiene più di uno spunto interessante, almeno per me… ;)
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Bill Israel’s unresolutions list is quite good:...the list, saying
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My life-improvement-list would...lot like Bill’s (below)
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