{"id":186,"date":"2009-01-24T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:59:49","slug":"new-years-resolutions-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/new-years-resolutions-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally I do my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and yearly planning while visiting my family between Christmas and  New Years, holed up in a Panera Bread in Haywood Mall in my hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.  That&#8217;s slipped to January in the past few years now that I live 2500 miles away and time in my hometown is pressed &#8211; but, now that the tornado has abated, I have come up with a decent set of resolutions.  Here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Review your resolutions monthly.<\/span><br \/>It&#8217;s easy to fall off the wagon.  My first resolution is to review my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions on the first of each month to see if I&#8217;m on track<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eat two before you buy one.<\/span><br \/>I have a huge library of books, comic books, DVDs and music, and the only thing I stay on top of is the music.  So this year, I plan to read two books before I buy a new one, and so on with my DVDs and comics.  Since I&#8217;m an avid book collector and like to stay current with comics, I have added the following subresolutions:<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read two books before you buy one, excluding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/\">vacations<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/index.html\">conferences<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read two comics before you buy one, excluding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcomics.com\/\">three new comics a week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Watch two DVDs before you buy one &#8211; and don&#8217;t let anyone loan you anything.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Work out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourfitness.com\/\">the gym<\/a> at least twice a week, at least three weeks a month.<\/span><br \/>I already do this.  I just don&#8217;t want to quit, or fall off the wagon when Sandi&#8217;s out of town.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacific-aikido.org\/\">martial arts class<\/a> at least twice a week, at least three weeks a month.<\/span><br \/>I was spotty about this last year, but this year: so far, so good.  And for the record, I miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taidoblog.com\/\">Taido<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Review your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Getting_Things_Done\">GTD<\/a> folder at least once a week, three weeks a month.<\/span><br \/>Or it isn&#8217;t doing you any good.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Publish at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanufiku.com\/\">Fanu Fiku<\/a> page a month.<\/span><br \/>I have a big backlog of pages.  That should get me through June if I do it.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least two hours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/fiction\/\">writing<\/a> at least twice a week.<\/span><br \/>I already do this; I just don&#8217;t want to fall off the wagon<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least two hours doing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">generative<\/span> research at least once a week.<\/span><br \/>I don&#8217;t do this, and need to.  I spend much more than two hours a week reading technical materials &#8211; maybe five to seven hours a week.  So it&#8217;s time to give back.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Send a short story to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadingedgemagazine.com\/\">magazine<\/a> at least once a month.<\/span><br \/>Or what am I writing for?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least one hour a week practicing a foreign language.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Japanese-Busy-People-I-Text\/dp\/4770018827\">Nihongo wa tottemo muzukashii desu<\/a>, but that&#8217;s no excuse.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spend at least one hour a week practicing your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeofpoi.com\/\">poi<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>Or you&#8217;re going to look really silly, setting <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">yourself<\/span> on fire at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningman.com\/\">Burning Man<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Each week, contact a friend you haven&#8217;t talked to in a while<\/span>.<br \/>Some of my friends call me &#8220;the Submarine&#8221; &#8211; I surface, send a packet, then disappear.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Write a blog entry once a week.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Starting with this one<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read a novel once a month.<\/span><br \/>The &#8220;fun&#8221; resolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s out there: nowhere near as interesting as <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdavies.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/new-years-resolution-2009-no-eating.html\">Jim Davies&#8217; New Year Resolutions<\/a>, but more useful for the challenges I personally face.  At the end of the year, I&#8217;ll go back and review this and see how I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally I do my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and yearly planning while visiting my family between Christmas and New Years, holed up in a Panera Bread in Haywood Mall in my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1,202],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}