New Years Resolutions
January 2nd, 2010
Hi All,
I thought with this being the start of the year an all that I would make some New Years resolutions. I don’t normally do this as I’m terrible at keeping to them. I thought though that Ishould try this year and at least make them achievable (Winning the lottery never seems to happen).
- Stop smoking.
I’ve been trying to stop smoking for years and actually managed it a few years ago for about 6 months. This time it will happen though. I’m currently on my 5th day. I see can a treat of a curry for getting through the 1st week. - Eat more healthily and do some exercise.
Not as many kebabs and Indian takeaways this year. I’ll also try and cut down on the drinking as well. I’m sure a few of you will miss the “rixhamisation” when we go out (you know who you are
) but I think it has to be limited this year. - Read up more on the technical stuff and actually come up with an app that may be of some use.
What I really want to do is get more in to OO programming and learn someVB.Net and some Ruby. This is already in hand and I hope to start looking more at a Ruby app in the next week or so with @marcjohnson and @ashleymoran. - Make some positive changes to work practices and become more efficient in projects and management.
Think I need to do some more reading on Agile management process, OO programming and some more Project Management.
I think that these resolutions are achievable during this year. Most of these have already been started on already.
So what are your resolutions for this year? Maybe we can help each other out?
A hope every one has a great 2010.
Cheers,
Richard
So, how am I doing on my new years resolutions now we’re into February.
1) Stop Smoking. This is going well, but not as well as I would have hoped. I have been at it for about 6 weeks now and had about 3 lapses after a couple of beers.
2) Eat more healthily and exercise. Well, I’ve tried to not have as much fried bread
I’ve joined the local Virgin Active gym and go as often as I can. Working on Cardio for now. Smoking for 20 years doesn’t help when it comes to running around. (Don’t start smoking kids!) It helps that they have a promotion on called Go2. If go to the gym for an average of twice a week for four weeks then you get incentives. i.e. 1st is a guest pass, 2nd is a water bottle, 3rd is a towel. I’m keeping my average well up at the moment. Gone from doing 1.8Km to 2.4Km in only a couple of weeks and doing jogging which is something I never thought I’d be doing. All gearing up to do a half-marathon in 2011.
3) Read up on more stuff. Yuip, got me going there. With the help of Ashley Moran and Marc Johnson I have started reading up on Agile development and even done a little Ruby, which I hope to get more time to play with (work has gone a bit mad this last few weeks so not had much time to play)
4) This is going well with new procedures but in place for testing and project management. Still loads to do though.
Something else that I’m wanting to so is to start being more practical at the Shacknet (shacknetwork.co.uk) meetings and this year to start making some Arduino Shields.
Hope you’re all having a great year up to now.