2012 New Year’s Resolutions
- Write a book
- Give an ignite talk
- Publish something 6 days a week
- Finish my office (floor, walls, desk, bookshelves)
- Truly learn Ruby on Rails or Python
- Beat my previous marathon time
- Grow EDU Snippits to a 1000+ visitor per week website
- Run a hackathon at Wayne State University
- Take public transportation to work at least once
- Be the best possible influence to Cecilia DeNardis
2011 Resolutions (3 success, 7 fail)
- FAIL: Learn sign language
- Just basically no time. Taking this off my list
- FAIL: Write a book
- Grad School totally got in the way of this one
- SEMI SUCCESS: Be a motivator in and outside of work
- No concrete evidence but I feel like I have been a motivator
- FAIL: Stick to a schedule of once every two weeks posting to .eduGuru
- FAIL: Finish my office (Floor, Walls, Desk, Bookshelves)
- FAIL: Truly learn Ruby on Rails or Python
- SEMI SUCCESS: Contribute to an open source project
- Continue to actively develop PHPSimpl and started WP Twitter Profile List Widget
- SEMI FAIL: No longer order meat
- Started out great for the first six months. I still eat meat, just not much at all
- SUCCESS: Run a marathon
- FAIL: Take public transportation to work at least once
- No excuse why I didn’t get this one done
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:06 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink
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In: thoughts · Tagged with: 2011, 2012, new, newyears, resolutions, years
on December 31, 2011 at 3:17 pm
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Ya know I go back and fourth between saying “not reaching a goal is a failure” or “not reaching a goal was a change of priorities.”
As an idea guy maybe that’s my excuse for having more ideas than I’ll ever be able to implement, but if I focus on staying true to core principles I don’t feel as guilty missing concrete goal(s). Or is that me just fooling myself?
As for #3 “Be a motivator in and outside of work” I bet you make more of an impact than you will ever know. I’d call that one a success and I have concrete evidence to back it up
p.s. What’s the book going to be about?
on December 31, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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Brandon,
Thanks for your insight. I think you’re right about the change in priorities vs failure. I think more of my priorities changed this last year as me and my wife welcomed our first child in to the world.
As for #3, glad the evidence exists, I’ll take your word for it
For the book, I have been entertaining the idea of writing it on iterative website redesign. I have a few ideas outlined already but no single outline that I am super happy about. I am just going to start writing and see where it goes this year.