I’m normally not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. You never hear anything thing about them after about January 2nd, and they’re often unrealistic and too general. As it happens, I’m actually at a point that I need to make some major changes, and I’m also at the point that I actually realize it. It’s the perfect storm of resolution-making. So 2013, while in you I resolve to:
1) Have a month of income in savings by the end of the year.
Some of you think it appalling that we don’t already have this in place, but keep in mind this is building on the, “stop bouncing checks” resolution from some time ago. We make plenty of money, but we suck, absolutely suck, at managing it. The current double house payment (wanna buy a house in Indian River?) exacerbates this problem — but we still make enough money. Just need to handle it better.
2) By the end of 2013, weigh 190 or less.
Thank you all for assuming this isn’t a very big goal, when in reality it’s about a 35 pound goal. Yes yes, I carry my weight well, but it’s to the point that even carrying my weight well isn’t helping much. I look fat unless I wear a muumuu, which not only isn’t an option at work, but also makes a person look fat.
3) Stop missing deadlines.
If you know me from my CBT Nuggets video series, you fully understand this one. It seems my life is always chaotic, and every other week I seem to have Ebola, but nonetheless, I need to get on track with meeting deadlines. For Linux Journal readers, you probably don’t realize this as much — but I suspect the Executive Editor (who is awesome, btw) has considered hiring a contract killer to help motivate me. Let’s just say I have a habit of turning in writing assignments for our monthly magazine over a month late. Do the math, that’s messed up.
So there you have it, the Shawn Powers List of Things He Hopes to Do but Will Probably Mess Up, or the SPLOTHHTDBWPME as I affectionately refer to it. I also hope to read more and stress less, but those are too general, and I already reached my self-enforced limit of 3 resolutions. Happy New Year everyone!
Hey Shawn, let’s put some incentive in this! For every deadline you miss, I get to mail you something from Gold City. Which you have to video yourself eating, and post here. It’s a win / win. Either you make your deadlines, or you make comedy gold. Whatddaya say? Deal? 😀
John, I have 6 articles due on Monday, and “letters to the editor” responses due tomorrow.
The CBT deadlines are tougher to track, as they’re all already overdue. I’ll take you up on the deal, and perhaps try to create a “catch up” schedule for video recordings so I can track that too.
*GULP* and thanks. I think. 🙂