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.
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