New year, new stuff. Had 6 posts drafted yet unfinished, deleted them. If they weren’t finished then, they won’t get finished now. Oh well.

I am not sure what it is with making resolutions because its a new year. I mean, if its a resolution that you really want to do, why can’t you start tomorrow? Would it have to wait until 2012? I think the average person breaks their resolution in the first month anyway. Probably the most popular one is to ‘eat healthier’, but I think thats a more general thing you should strive for at any point in the year. Start tomorrow.

I couldn’t make a resolution even if I tried. Maybe because in my head I feel that they are too open ended. I think small goals are more attainable. They are defined, solid. ‘I will lose 5 pounds’ - thats a goal, it has an end. You know when you are there. I like to think more in those terms. What can I do, and how can I know I did it?

So instead, I made myself a list of goals. Granted, some aren’t small, and some are out there. While some feel unlikely, none are impossible, and stranger things have happened. I believe that if its something I want bad enough, sooner or later, its going to happen. It’s all a matter of how much I put my mind to it and finding the right amount of time.

Goals for 2011

• Stop trying to find the time to find the time. If you don’t have time, you simply don’t. Manage the time you have more efficiently.
• Read 20 books. (I am already 1 down).
• Upgrade my site to Wordpress 3.0.4 (already done)
• Gain 10-15 pounds of muscle to make up for the 30 pounds of ‘bad’ weight I dropped.
• Move beyond 30lb dumbbells.
• Join a gym.
• Start going to antique auctions.
• Get over 2000 twitter followers.
• Attend Drupalcon Chicago.
• Redevelop CKYs website in Drupal 7.
• Convert my current library of books into my iPad.
• Learn 3 new languages and apply at least 1 of them in a project.
• Actually take a day off.
• Get something funny on Reddit.
• Buy a piano. Learn to play, at any level.
• Stop thinking about dumbasses.
• Delete or close my Facebook account.
• Buy a 1970s Les Paul.
• Improve my cooking skills.
• Meet Jon Hamm.
• Meet Michael C. Hall.
• Upgrade to iPhone 4.
• Start riding my bike again.
• Drive a Porsche. I don’t have to own it, just simply drive one, once.
• See the following in concert (if possible):
  • Mastodon
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Metallica
  • Deftones
  • Foo Fighters
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Dave Matthews
  • Death Cab For Cutie
  • Eric Clapton
  • Pearl Jam
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Viking Skull
  • Mudvayne
  • Andy McKee
  • Jay-Z
• Wash my jeep twice a month.
• Get a beach tag.
• Replace my PC with a 27” iMac.
• Get up at 6:30, consistently. Coincides with the first goal.
• Learn how to use my Canon T1i.
• Learn photography.
• Go to New York.
• Go to Vegas.
• Go to L.A.
• Go to Texas.
• Buy an acoustic guitar.
• Record something.
• Appear in more photos.

• Spend 4th of July in DC.

• Continue being badass.

I think this list is rather modest and while it seems like a lot it actually isn’t ambitious enough for a person like me- but it will get me started.