Monday, December 29, 2008

New Year's Resolutions

In the last few days I've been thinking alot about what I intend to do in the next few months, and the next year entirely. Here's a list of resolutions I've made to myself for the year 2009 (with a list of more attainable goals for myself in parentheses):

  1. Lose 60lbs. I'm currently at 207.5lbs (thanks Christmas), so that would put me at just under 150lbs. I'm 5'9", so my ideal weight should be between 130lbs and 170lbs, between 19 and 25 BMI. (Ideal goal: Lose 10lbs before the baby is born, 10lbs by summer, and hopefully 10lbs by fall)
  2. Win the lottery. I'd love to win millions and millions of dollars in the lottery and just retire. Yeah, right. (Ideal goal: Find a better paying job. I'm moving to a new job in a few days, but without a pay raise. In order to help make ends meet better, I really need to find a better paying position)
  3. Write a program, sell it, retire. Again, it'd be nice to make tons of money so I wouldn't have to keep grinding my life away toward retirement, but alas... (Ideal goal: Use my newfound knowledge of Python to work on the project with my friend etank, while writing software on my own)
  4. Gain internet notoriety. Yeah, not a good goal, I know, but it would certainly be nice to create something useful, interesting, or funny to share with the world. A webcomic, internet TV show, webcast, etc. I don't know. (Ideal goal: Pick something I'm good at, do something with it, and stick it on the web. If it's noteworthy, it'll gain traction. If not, what's next?)
  5. Be a good father / role model to my unborn son. While this doesn't seem entirely unattainable, it is definitely something that will be difficult. I have a lot of bad habits that I need to ensure I don't pass along, and a lot of life lessons I'll have to teach him when he is able to understand (Ideal goal: Take it one day at a time. Teach him what I can)

That's really all I can think of at the moment. Lofty goals, offset by more humble, attainable ones. I'll be surprised if I even achieve any of my "Ideal goals", but I'm certainly going to try.

(Partial sidenote with regards to #2 and #3 above: For my new job, I'm learning C# and ASP.NET. I'm sort of against the idea of "Microsoft" languages, but it's a part of the job, so I've got to do it...)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

On resolution #1 I'm in the same boat as you. I would really like to lose about 30lbs.

With #3 The good news is that actually you can use C# on Linux too so it isn't a total loss.

For that other project you mention ... we need to get cracking on it or it may never happen.