Here are my New Year’s resolutions. They start off with vague motherhood statements and get into some specifics further down.
To be, in alphabetical order, a better boyfriend, brother, parent, son, uncle, world citizen… to be a better person.
To keep learning and trying new things.
To keep working for or giving to causes I believe in.
To have more fun.
To stop being so damn busy I don’t have time to smell the roses.
To buy a house before the winter returns.
To eat healthier — no more buying family-sized chocolate blocks and eating them myself.
To travel. Even just a little bit.
To read more.
To ride that damn bicycle. Indeed, to generally get more exercise.
To floss every day.
To stop my worst habit.
To send in my tax forms (and every other bit of administrivia) on time.
To keep upgrading my wardrobe, and say bye bye daggy clothing.
To chuck out or ebay all that junk I don’t need.
To stay on top of my e-mail.
To learn CSS.
To stop saving stuff in the TEMP directory.
To have patience with moronic drivers.
To consistently get 8 hours’ sleep a night.
Hmm, that’s about all for now. (Feel free to leave comments, or link/trackback to your own blog resolutions).
Happy new year, all!
10 replies on “NY resolutions”
Happy New Year to everyone
All very admirable Daniel. I am not sure I really want the answer, but what is your worst habit?
Happy new year, Daniel!
You wanna do all that and get 8 hours sleep a night? Good Luck!
I’m with Rob. Maybe along with your resolutions, you need to list all the timewasting things you need to give up to achieve what you want without getting a nervous breakdown! Oh and maybe review 2004’s.
2005- not written yet, so here’s 2004’s.
THINKING
– become a more creative thinker & record my thoughts
FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
– gross passive income to exceed $X pa and have Y properties
GENEROSITY
– donate $Z to charity
HEALTH
– sleep well, exercise well, eat well
COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
– participation in at least one more social or community group
TIDINESS
– i will keep this flat tidier
All achieved (or made progress on) except for the last! And a 2003 resolution that was broken (change of employment) was achieved in 2004.
2005 resolutions will reduce emphasis on financial achievement, but strengthen job goals, travel, relationships with people, position in society.
Pah, you wanna know my worst habit? It’s worthy of a blog post if I choose to reveal it.
Yes, implicit in there somewhere is better time management!
All admirable goals, Daniel. While I’d like to share the one about 8 hours sleep a night, with a toddler and a new baby due in May, I’m resolving instead to merely “get as much sleep as possible, hopefully enough to keep me on the right side of total collapse”.
That’s a great list. And all very acheievable. Good luck in succeeding in most of them.
I’m going to try and do a list of my own… Perhaps!
Very glad to see that one of your resolutions is the same as mine (well, a few are similar, but this one is my fave rant at the moment …) “To floss every day”. Let’s all do our bit to get dentists back to driving Camrys or something and not Audis etc!
Also, was the last time you rode your bike when you took a meme pic of it? :P