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Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by revorad »

nomadiccoder wrote: post #108

I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and also listened to some process philosophy from Steven West's Philosophize This. One takeaway that I had was on the danger of setting goals. I am trying to build a mindset of 'becoming' or to embrace the journey of the goal rather than really trying to achieve a specific milestone. - I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption to become a person that doesn't rely…

Ever since I came across this concept of focusing on habits/systems instead of goals, I've been confused. Surely we need both?

Ali Abdaal expressed this well in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkRC728rIU

I wish you all the best in your journey!

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by ravenstine »

nvahalik wrote: post #87

1. Increase the Bus Factor of our main application. 2. Develop mentoring skills. 3. Start to transition away from being a full-time developer to a staff engineer. 4. Create a culture that is highly tolerable of risk and failure. 2-4 are not just work focused but are also family focused. So much of what we do as a family embraces comfort rather than risk-taking. We should do more of that.

> 4. Create a culture that is highly tolerable of risk and failure.

I'm curious; in what context? Would this be at a personal level, a team level, or something bigger?

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by scrollaway »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #116
scrollaway wrote: post #15

Happy new year, HN. I'm a huge believer in CGP Grey's thematic year system ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE ) in place of resolutions. After outstanding successes two years in a row with the system (first year with my physical health, second year with my work and finances), I'm doing a "year of relationships" where my focus will be general social and romantic recoveries. Especially since, in the last two…

I love the idea of year themes but I tend to just end up picking the same words and find it hard to settle on just area so end up with something like 'Progress' because we all want progress right? but then what does that even mean.

I recommend picking an area of your life you want to improve on the most, preferably one where you feel you’re not progressing fast enough.

Weight = “body”. Depression/burnout = “mind”. Other themes I’ve seen picked are specific countries (for language), or culture in general, or “year of zen” to learn how to deal with stress etc.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by khnov »

Hi HN,

I'll quit my job to work as a consultat on my own.

I'll move to my bought house.

I'll buy a nice mercedes car.

I'll receive my new baby.

I'll try to build something with my friend.

I'll try to have profit from crypto investments.

I'll continue to learn rust.

I'll build blog about many subjects.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by jasonladuke0311 »

1. Improve my development skills. As a security engineer, it's sometimes easy to fall into a rut where I don't write code often enough. I need to find projects on my own that are interesting enough to push me.

2. Keep training combat sports, especially with my son. It's been a great bonding experience, and those can be hard to find with teenagers. It's been great for me too. Need to train intelligently and ensure I can recover from training.

3. Read books at times other than the night. I usually only read for an hour or so before bedtime, but this makes some books take forever to finish. I fear my house will be filled with unread books before long.

4. Keep trying to be the best dad, husband, and human I can be. Long way to go here.

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