Show/Tell HN: My (New Year's) Resolution Is
A buddy and I had a ridiculous idea at 4pm Wednesday to create a simple site to collect new year's resolutions.
http://www.myresolutionis.com
We went from "dude, I've got this idea" to a fully-functioning production site in less than 20 man-hours (we still had to work our "real jobs" in the middle) thanks to the hacker community:
* A Linode credit from an AppSumo bundle from a few weeks ago - server solved.
* Ruby on Rails & FB Connect gems - back end framework solved.
* The HTML5 boilerplate & jQuery - front end framework solved.
* StackOverflow - "issues" solved.
Actual cost-to-date: $10 for the domain name registration.
The hacker community wins again!
PS, here's my resolution list: http://www.myresolutionis.com/jeff
edit: title for clarification :)
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 74.3 ms ] threadI changed the title so it makes (any, more?) sense.
In 2010 I lost ANOTHER 50 lbs.
In 2011 I'm going to lose the final 50.
(...yes, obviously, I was pretty overweight to start with!).
I payed off my mortgage last year. This year I'd like to pay off my HELOC.
I took up guitar last year, and practiced for 45 minutes per day. Going to continue that, and upload a video of me playing one memorized song per month.
I've got a dozen more resolutions - most are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely). Most are of the form "do 1 X per Y".
I've been making a list of candidates in a personal wiki all year long, and will spend some time later today figuring out which ones make the cut.
Globally launch my new business book: http://personalmba.com/personal-mba-book-launch/
Speak at SXSW, Authors@Google, and the RSA.
Start conducting live business training every few months in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Spend more time on physical fitness, including biking, pull-ups, burpees, and dips. (Sorely lacking while writing the book.)
Spend less time working, and more time relaxing and playing with my new daughter.
Edit (to avoid being entirely off-topic): My resolution, which I've been plugging away at, is to strike up conversation with a stranger a day. On the day I die, I'm confident that I'll be content with the amount of work I've managed to squeeze in. But extrapolating the current trends, I'm not so sure I'll be able to say the same about my social life without a bit of active adjustment.
In 2011 I'm going to gain 15+ lbs of muscle.
Also going to get some of my finances in order. While I have a very limited startup income, I at least need to fix up the IRA/etc accounts I've been sitting on for a few years and not really doing anything with.
And more reading. Losing weight and reading more was on my agenda last year and I picked up a kindle and read everything from psychology books to finance and enjoyed it.
I'm happy to say I lost 50 lbs about 4 years ago and have gained very little of it back.
I need to
- Get enough sleep on a regular basis
- Hit the gym more often
- Fire some of my clients who are PITAs
- Travel more
- Balance my time better
- Knock more things off my life bucket list. This year I went snowmobiling and skydiving, woot :)
- make more time in my life for the people i love
- take up a physically exerting, mentally calming hobby
- generate more income
- constrain spending
- position myself to leave the country for more than 50% of 2012
- Publish my next book on uncertainty, art and entrepreneurship
- Reanimate my digital publishing and book marketing brand
- Continue to be present with my wife and daughter
- Grow my revenue base via commoditized knowledge and speaking
- Enjoy what I've got when it happens.
- Get my second iPhone app published
- Find a job before I graduate in April
- Maintain my website better, and try to blog interesting coding discoveries when I find them
- Improve my Javascript abilities
- Overall: Be 'Better' ( http://www.merlinmann.com/better )
In 2011 I'm going to keep cutting my path while plowing through pressures to commercialize my ideas.
- Tremendously increase work-life balance. Exercise. Pursue a hobby. Watch TV/movies somewhere other than at my computer desk. Take the weekends off unless I'm very eager to work.