I don’t know about you but I enjoy reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the year to come. If you are a student of Timothy Ferris you know about how important it is to put goals down on paper. What get’s measured gets done. My post didn’t start out to be an endorsement for The Four Hour Work Week, but it really can help you focus your time and eliminated wasted energy on tasks that are not productive.
Most Common New Year’s Resolutions
- Lose Weight
- Save Money/Manage Debt
- Get a Better Job
- Get Fit/Eat Right
- Get a Better Education
- Quit Smoking
- Reduce Stress
- Volunteer to Help Others
*Source usa.gov
My Resolutions
Talk is cheap, so one way to make you accountable for making your goal’s a reality is to tell everyone. So here goes.
- Family-Spend more time with my wife and son. I want to make sure that my wife and I have a “date night” at least twice a month and that I don’t let work take away from the little bit of time I have to spend with my seven year old. Low Tech Saturday’s – my goal for 2009 is to live unplugged Saturdays. No email, no laptop, so blogging, distractions. Pure family time. I have decided to allow for personal productivity time if it permits after 10PM on Saturday (after little man is in bed).
- Health -Improve my diet and exercise quality. What do you mean your diet isn’t perfect? You blog about Health Tips Bradley? Truth is I have lead a successful plan the past two years to the point that I know how much to exercise or diet modify to splurge here and there. My wife’s Christmas cookies are NOT helping the last two weeks. My current goal which has been sustained over the last two years is to exercise five nights a week. I am only doing Cardio now and I need to diversify my routine beyond the Precor, pushups, and core exercises. Regarding diet, I need to double my vegetable intake daily and increase my fiber intake.
- Financial – I have been dabbling in technical analysis trading for the last ten years, but I have not followed a strict plan. Boy was that a mistake. Never again will I allow a market like 2008 to decimate my portfolio. I also have a goal of making more and spending less. Spending less doesn’t mean living less, it means eliminating unnecessary expenditures.
- Lifestyle Design – I spend the better part of 2008 catching up on Web 2.0 and digesting Tim’s Book and other Internet courses, and starting this blog. I would like to make enough money outside of my day job as a pharmacist to pay for my mortgage before the year is over. That revenue could come from stock market trading, or a Healthy Living Tip Program that I create, or some affiliate program.
Those are my core personal resolutions. Please leave a comment and tell me about yours!
Thanks for tuning in and have a great Christmas!
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Yo Brad – Good resolutions. But…
No Tech Saturday!!!! That’s insane! Or, it is admirable. Not really sure which. I’m leaning toward insane though.
I plan (hopefully) on doing some Lifestyle Design this year. I have some ideas for a new site. We’ll see how it plays out.
Also, for fitness, I’ve got two:
1) Run a Half Marathon in under 2 hours. I’ve done a few of them in just over 2 hours. You’d think I could knock out 9 min out of 13 miles…
2) Do the 100 pushup challenge. It’s a program geared toward getting you up to 100 pushups (without stopping) over 6 weeks. I think if I really really really tried, I could probably do 11 right now. So, I’ve got some way to go.
Good for you on the half marathon Adam.
I have seen the 100 pushup challenge. Since I got on my healthy focus hat I have been doing pushups and situps (now a series of crunches) 3 to 4 times a week. I can do 50 pushups at a clip no problem. I should see how much farther I can go too. I usually think I am a stud since I can do 50 and just leave it at that!
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