DJPR | Online Residence

2009 New Year’s Resolution: Draft 01

It is said that people who write down their New Year’s Resolution do better at achieving them than those that don’t. Let’s hope that typing them in a computer works just as well as writing it on paper.

Enforce Discipline & Process
Discipline is first and foremost. Needless to say, planning is nothing without execution. To help aide this, I need to implement a process of doing a biweekly (once every two weeks) review of my immediate goals and reminding myself of my long term goals.

Writing: Blogging, Self-Reflection, Commentary
Emergence-Media has been a great way to better my writing skills, yet I need to diversify the type of writing I do. Marketing is one thing – commentary, self-reflection, analysis and review are another. Thus, I see a need to diversify the type of writing I do.

Implement Project Streamlining
I had plan as far as five months ago to do at least 6-7 projects in one month.. Of course, I’ve done absolutely nil. I need to forsake my ambition to do them all concurrently and do them one by one.

Create an Information Filter
My Promethean lust for infinite knowledge – such as constant reading of everything from Roubini’s blogs to New York Time’s columns every day – is self-defeating and delusional. I need to go on an information diet and only pursue my “information lust “ hobby on the weekends.

Read a Book a Month
Going along with the “Information Filter”, I need to replace my constant blog reading with actual substantial reading: novels, non-fiction, instructional, classics etc. I’ve got a ten page plus long reading list, which I should focus on rather than constantly refreshing Digg for tid-bits to read.

Less Drinking and More Donations
I’ve always been a sturdy drinker – be it hanging out at the Slav Dom at Stanford, at the Pub at SFSU before class, or livin’ up the “Agency Lifestyle” after work. But honestly, I don’t really need to drink that much or that expensively. So, I’d do four less drinks a month. The cash for those four drinks – say $40 since I mostly do cocktails – will be saved for either an Iraqi charity or for Iraq War veterans.

DJPR: As a Modest Blog

I’ve gone through at least four blogs in the past four years. Some, like Emergence-Media (marketing) and Strategy Unit (international relations) achieved their own claim to fame. Emergence-Media got a few nice recognitions and Strategy Unit was mentioned by Instapundit and many other politically-oriented blogs.

DJPR, as a personal blog, will be different. It will not be topic based nor will I strive for it to achieve some sort of C-list blogger fame. DJPR.us began as a place for hosting my resume, basic contact information and some of my published papers. And now it’ll act like as an exercise for my general writing by acting as an extension of my academic/professional life.

What does that mean in terms of topics?

Outlining projects, notes on GTDing, book reviews, notes on online classes I’m taking and so on.

So it’s more for myself than for public consumption, but I thought it maybe helpful to have my writings made public. This may change.

And there you have it. Let DJPR’s next incarnation begin!