Get the time balance right between my full time job, my startup and my wife and child.
That definition of "right" is going to be tricky...
Ask HN: What's your new year resolution?
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#32* Learn more, lot more by working with people smarter than me.
* Do more for others. In that vein, I'm contributing to a local co-working setup by helping people with Product Design.
* On a bigger experiment, I'm planning a Product Design Tour[1] of Silicon Valley.
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#331280x1024
...and to try and resist the urge to answer every question with a bad joke.
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#34Loose 20 pounds. I actually accomplished that (and 10 more) last year :). Learn Python. Actually put my homepage on the internet (wow, wouldn't that be something!)
Any tips on how you accomplished your first goal ?
For six months I exercised three times per week with a personal trainer at set appointments to make sure I would go. Lots of weight lifting. That provided the fastest results. I also improved my diet though my sweet tooth remains. I've been far more sedentary (though still getting some light exercise, walking around the neighborhood, going up and down a 7 story parking structure) and have been able to maintain my weight which is a good sign.
I'm probably going to try the same thing again since it worked so well a year ago. I'm 20b away from my High School weight but a bit leaner.
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#35* Don't worry about others judging me
* Don't judge others
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#36Also, stop biting my nails. I've got myself a simple little manicure set (the little scissors and a nail file) and whenever I'm on the phone, I gently grind & shape a couple nails. Bonus: typing feels much better with smooth nails than with awful bitten fingers.
I've never had that problem myself, and I don't know if you've already tried it, but I've heard of people using bitter nail polish. It seems like a clever way to change that habit.
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#37Also, stop biting my nails. I've got myself a simple little manicure set (the little scissors and a nail file) and whenever I'm on the phone, I gently grind & shape a couple nails. Bonus: typing feels much better with smooth nails than with awful bitten fingers.
I've never had that problem myself, and I don't know if you've already tried it, but I've heard of people using bitter nail polish. It seems like a clever way to change that habit.
I don't want to trick myself into not doing something. I'd feel stupid. Plus, I don't want extra hassle of putting something onto my nails. I bite my nails just because I've never really worried about it, but now I feel like I should stop and I don't want any "lure" to achieve this :)
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#38* ace my current project (a medium/big rearchitecture of an application stack : move to web front-end, data analysis, software quality, etc)
* write and publish : I have two short stories and few blogs articles that my wife finds interesting, maybe others would be interested as well.
* get fit : I used to be MA instructor, but because of my (now-closed) start-up, I let it slide. 100 push-ups, 1 hours run, -10 pounds, etc.
* double my income : I don't really care about the money per se, but this keeps me away from doing things nobody cares about.
* learn & use monads & monads transformer (haskell)
* master the javascript ecosystem.
* publish my 3d procedural modeler.
* move to another city.
Re: Ask HN: What's your new year resolution?
#39[] Improve my English,
[] Learn any functional language (I tried to learn Haskell, now I'm looking at Clojure);
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone always has to say this, but it's a little bit tired. A new year is not entirely "arbitrary". Sure – from the point of view of geology or global history, it's irrelevant. But it provides a very obvious psychological "clean slate" – a fresh start and obvious break. It usually provides a little holiday, some time spent with family, and an opportunity for reflection. Yes, most resolutions fail. But people aren't…
Making something a resolution to change something at New Year is giving yourself permission to fail. Everyone breaks their New Year resolutions, so why shouldn't you? The fact is, if we can resolve to change at the beginning of January then we can commit to self-improvement at the drop of a hat (assuming the 'drop of a hat' means a time when we have the necessary resources, time, inclination, etc). The date makes abs…
Personally, I make a plan before Jan 1st of what I want to achieve the following year in burst of 4, starting from January 1st.
I've found this to be a lot more motivating, since the finish date is relatively close... Three months isn't a long time and being able to say you've succeeded feels great!