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If resolutions were so powerful, why not have monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly resolutions? Imagine the things we could accomplish if all it took was to attach a goal to a discrete unit of time. My new day resolution is to get some more sleep.
I set monthly reminders to keep me on track this year and they helped a bit, I might try weekly too this year. Course correcting once a year is definitely not enough.
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Let me guess you are employed? I was in a similar situation and quitting my job helped me get out of this. Beginning was bumpy and I regreted it somewhat for some time, but I don’t even think about it anymore. It’s ok if you don’t have a plan or a project, you need some curiosity and general area of what you are interested in (a stack of unread books counts). You aren’t betting on your project but on your skills. Lik…
I left my job early in 2017, did an internship for a few months, moved to another country at the same time, lost the job I was supposed to get after the internship, came back to my home country, and got another job. I'd say I've done my "year off", looking for stability at the moment. I like the idea though. The thing is, I'm not super self-motivated to work on programming. It's fun when I'm getting paid, but when I'…
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That'e excellent resolution because it has specific and measurable goals. Everything that says like "eat less junk food" is going to be ignored 1 week later. I like 777 types of fruit, gonna steal this one :-)
Are there 777 types of fruit (at least edible ones you have access to)?
I wrote more here: https://medium.com/@7sevens/1st-january-2018-fruit-and-runni...
I’ll be doing a slightly-silly personal challenge that I made up: walk 7,777,777 steps, write 777,777 words, do 77,777 jumping jacks, 7,777 press-ups, eat 777 different types of fruit, achieve target weight of 77kg, and run 7 10K races. https://medium.com/@7sevens/the-seven-sevens-challenge-c7b7d...
I like this one. 7M steps! That's quite challenging, that's an average of 20K steps a day... Even the 7x10K races would only make up for ~90K steps...
I’ll be doing a slightly-silly personal challenge that I made up: walk 7,777,777 steps, write 777,777 words, do 77,777 jumping jacks, 7,777 press-ups, eat 777 different types of fruit, achieve target weight of 77kg, and run 7 10K races. https://medium.com/@7sevens/the-seven-sevens-challenge-c7b7d...
Do subvarieties of apples count?
I don't like resolutions. They are lies we tell ourselves, false promises from our present self about our future self. If you actually believe you can accomplish your resolutions, you don't need a manufactured holiday, like New Year's, to decide to change your life. Any day of the week should work. Don't wait until 2018 - start today.
I don't like resolutions. They are lies we tell ourselves, false promises from our present self about our future self. If you actually believe you can accomplish your resolutions, you don't need a manufactured holiday, like New Year's, to decide to change your life. Any day of the week should work. Don't wait until 2018 - start today.
If resolutions were so powerful, why not have monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly resolutions? Imagine the things we could accomplish if all it took was to attach a goal to a discrete unit of time. My new day resolution is to get some more sleep.
- Build: Plant 100 trees
- Teach: Programming lessons for parents
- Be: Healthy. Workout 3 times a weeks
Watch less TV and read more. I have a list of books to read, and shows I'd like to keep at/below 2 half hour, 2 hour long per week.
Complete /r/photoclass_2018
Learn Swedish spoon carving. Make at least one spoon I'm happy with using. Get good enough to attempt a dala horse.
Relearn Spanish using Fluent Forever ideas/products. Get good enough to help translate for Spanish speakers in stores.
Lose weight. At 260, my goal is 199. Going to use a mix of weightlifting and metcon-style workouts.
Work:
Focus more a la Deep Work
Learn more AWS and Docker stuff
Lead refactoring of our code base
Help guide the core philosophy changes we need to move from survival mode startup to strong engineering culture
Edited to put some more specific targets around my personal goals.
1. Get a job 2. Finish a side project 3. Go on a date with a girl 4. Finish an NES game on my backlog 5. Read the second book in The Chronicles of Narnia (I've only read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe) 6. Relax
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is actually the second book in the series, even though it was written first :)
I found this link: http://www.narniaweb.com/resources-links/in-what-order-shoul...
It reminds me of Haruhi Suzumiya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya (also excellent series)