I noticed Cal Evans had put up a list of goals for the 2008 year. It got me to thinking about my own, and then I realized pretty much everything on his list is something I’d like to do as well.
- Lose 30 pounds (I’d be fine with losing 10 this year, but close enough!)
- One blog post per week – I tend to do more than that, but occasionally slip for more than 7 days without, so I’ll likely keep on top of that more. And keep them more focused. I may end up splitting in to two blogs. OR migrate WebDevRadio to WordPress and use that as a combined ‘tech’ blog and podcast.
- Write one new article per month – I’d like to write more in-depth how-tos than I do (which right now is almost 0). Focus will probably be grails or groovy, but I’ve got some PHP ideas I’m working on. Documenting those would be a good start.
- Another book in 2008. Funny enough, I did a book in 2007 – well, 2/3rds of one after the publisher reviewed it. It *may* come out this year, which would be nice. I have two other ideas I’m putting together, and I have interest from publishers on them. The issue is time to write, and I’ll work on making that happen.
- A picture a day in 2008. I don’t think I’ll be doing this one.
- Learn a new language. I was inspired to try to learn Chinese this year. I have a tiny bit of the spoken down, but the writing is what I’ll need to concentrate on if I do this. When I was in China, I couldn’t *read* anything, so trying to look it up in a dictionary was pointless.
A couple others I’d add to the list outside of Cal’s are:
- Get better @ Java – doing this mostly via Groovy, but may focus some on straight Java itself
- Work on business development ideas for current job
- Get Grails open source project(s) out the door before April(!)
- Get through “Getting Things Done” (a bit of irony there) and try to adapt that to my life and work
- Run a marathon. Considering I don’t run *at all* right now, this might be interesting to pull off.
These aren’t ‘resolutions’, and I won’t beat myself up over these if I don’t hit them all, but having some written goal posts to measure things in a year will be good to have. If I deviate from these, it’ll probably be because something else better presented itself.
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