Annual Planning

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2011 Annual Cultivation: Year of Nurturing

Photo: Corn Fields in Balche, Nepal

I was originally going to call this post the 2011 Annual Planning, but then I realized that doesn't make sense. How can I plan for something that I know nothing about?

Like an empty field awaiting cultivation, this year holds lots of potential but needs to be tilled and planted before it will grow.

So instead of creating a plan, I asked myself what kind of field I wanted to see at the end of the year. What kind of life do I want to be living one year from now?

By the end of 2011, I want my life to reflect the following:

  • Financial freedom; shifting focus to growth
  • A strong global network of friends; deeper connections
  • Travel planning based on charitable opportunities instead of available funds
  • Lots of hiking experience; familiar with search & rescue, first aid
  • Comfortable with my health and fitness level; maintenance mode

The next thing I asked myself was how can I cultivate this year in such a way that the seeds of change I plant are given the best opportunity to grow? How do I need to live my life in 2011 so that I'm more prepared for 2012?

With those questions in mind, I came up with several seeds to nurture this year: Continue reading →

Goals for 2010

For the past few years I have compiled a list of "New Year's Resolutions" to work towards. While there is nothing wrong with having resolutions and working towards them, I feel that I'm outgrowing them. A resolution is defined as "a firm decision to do or not to do something" whereas a goal is "an aim or desired result". Having an aim and achieving a specific result is becoming more and more important to me than just checking things off a list.

This year I'm taking "resolutions" to the next level. Borrowing a system from Chris Guillebeau, I've defined several goals by category -- Lifestyle, Health, Learning, Writing, Blogging, Financial, Travel, and Business -- and, using a spreadsheet, I will keep track of progress throughout the year.

What follows are several (but not all) categories from my annual review spreadsheet. I intend to review all of the goals in each category at the end of each quarter (April 1st, July 1st, October 1st). This will allow me to see which goals I need to reevaluate and which I need to focus more on to make progress.
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Additions to My 2009 Resolutions

While my current set of resolutions for this year includes getting in the best shape of my life, I want to set a few particular goals:

  1. 500-yard swim in under 10 minutes (using sidestroke or breaststroke)
  2. 80 Push-Ups in 2 minutes
  3. 80 Sit-Ups in 2 minutes
  4. 25 Pull-Ups (no time limit)
  5. 1.5 Mile Run in under 10 minutes
  6. Become a certified scuba diver
  7. Complete the AFF program

Those are some seriously tough fitness goals, but they're definitely reachable. I plan to do a lot more swimming this year and I'm going to work hard to increase my lung capacity. If you're not sure what the AFF program is, I'm sure you can figure it out. 🙂

2009: New Year's Resolutions

Here are my New Year's resolutions for 2009:

  1. Get in the best shape of my life
  2. Improve my social skills
  3. Improve my handwriting
  4. Make at least one of my website ideas a reality
  5. Read one book every month
  6. Learn more about microcontrollers
  7. Add more programming languages to my skill set (maybe Scheme, Perl, Python, and Ruby)
  8. 500-yard swim in under 10 minutes (using sidestroke or breaststroke)
  9. 80 Push-Ups in 2 minutes
  10. 80 Sit-Ups in 2 minutes
  11. 25 Pull-Ups (no time limit)
  12. 1.5 Mile Run in under 10 minutes
  13. Become a certified scuba diver
  14. Complete the AFF program

I'm really looking forward to this new year and I can already feel big changes headed my way!

EDIT: I added #8 - #14 on February 15th.

2008 New Years Resolutions

Here are this years resolutions, in order of importance (the first five are a continuation of #2 from last year). I decided to get a little more specific instead of generalizing the goals like I did for 2007.

  1. Drink at least 2 liters of water per day (doesn't include other liquids)
  2. Drink no more than 1 cup of coffee per day
  3. 100 pushups, 100 situps, and 100 pullups per day, every day
  4. 10% Bodyfat
  5. Maintain a 100% vegan diet
  6. Reduce what I own
  7. At least $20k in savings and investments (part of #1 last year)
  8. Get rid of all my rental properties (part of #1 last year)
  9. Revamp my web hosting business and move it to corbaweb.com
  10. Make bbalert.net public (personal project)
  11. Make myfmo.com public (personal project, #3 last year)
  12. Make savenotes.com public (personal project, #4 last year)
  13. Read one book per month
  14. Become a better chess player

Looks like its going to be a busy and productive year! I will post an update to the status of this list in three months.

New Years Resolutions – 2007

This years resolutions, in order of importance:

  1. Fix my financial position (get my rental properties streamlined with my brother as the property manager and reduce or eliminate unnecessary bills)
  2. Develop and maintain a regular healthy diet and exercise program (which includes drinking more tea and less coffee!)
  3. Finish myfmo.com (personal project)
  4. Finish savenotes.com (personal project)

Jan 1, 2003 02:10:53

Happy New Years!

New years resolutions:

1) Lose 20lbs and get in shape by June 1st
2) Finish highschool
3) Study for and take the SAT's and score at least 1200
4) Get into college for the Fall Semesters
5) Do more romantic things for my GF
6) Take my GF horse back riding!
7) Get my MCSE2k and CCNA certifications
8) Get at least 1 Linux certification
9) Learn a foreign language
10) Learn a computer programming language
11) Save $10,000

Ambitious? Better to be ambitious than have no goals at all. 🙂

When I finish learning PHP, I'll have my projects section more automated and I'll add a project for my new years resolution, so you can keep track of which goals I accomplish throughout the year. 🙂