Post-a-list, engage!
- Ongoing resolutions from last year, and probably for the rest of my life
- Health: I am older, bolder, and fatter. I also have creeping blood pressure that spiked horribly after my year and a half California ordeal management. Thus, I continue working out, eating better, and avoiding salt, despite my love for it. I feel like my health zenith is to get back to a 32 inch waist, upon which my knee, blood pressure, and mood shall all improve. Alas, I read the most depressing article that once you take off a significant amount of weight, you basically get to obsess over it your whole life because having the weight changes you physiologically: Your muscle tissue is that much more efficient, your digestive tract treats all food as godsends in a famine condition, and your mind wants to think about the new calorie counting hobby constantly.
- Organization: My house is not an unmitigated mess, but I have piles upon piles of old (if not semi-sensibly organized) stuff that I really don’t need to keep anymore. It’s getting to the point where I have lost a few things just because I hid them in a spot underneath something else that I can not remember which pile was where. As my memory for phone numbers gets replaced by the fancy Google contacts list synced to my smartphone, I hope to go through piles, files, and shelves… find tons of stuff to chuck or gift, and give everything I kept in the house a clear, roomy, obvious home that even my dotty-ness can figure out in a pinch.
- Communication: Communicate better with coworkers, friends, loved ones, and random folks on the Internet who like to read/listen-to my blather. My hope is for more blog posts and podcasts, less friction and more meaningful interactions, better gift ideas, less “crap, what is this person’s name/last-name/rank” moments, and of course… world peace.
- New resolutions for this year… and probably for the rest of my life
- Adjust station within workplace accordingly: Sometime between last year and this year, my company has done its best to clarify what it wants from prior company that got eaten and how we-the-eaten can better portray what we are looking to do and willing to do. My first reactions, after seeing what other consultants in other divisions tended to go through, was to throw an embarrassing tantrum. After calming down, I had an epiphany just in time for the new year (but alas, not the financial new year) that I was barking up the wrong tree with my career path. Thus, I have been having discussions with coworkers and am ready to stake out my position and have my reasons clear, and I think it will get me in a much better place regarding what I want to do.
- Austerity and Economic Recovery: Last year I inherited some new financial responsibilities. I am not hurting by any means, but my occasional sprees which used to just get eaten up as “I saved less this month” are now actual “I ate into savings a bit this month”. Thus, in tandem with an inventory from Organization… I’ll need be a lot more wary about what I buy, when and for whom.
- Read more: I spend a lot of time in a car, and the first thing I do when I get home is put on the TV to some movie I’ve already seen a billion times before. I have a Kindle, and not one of the fancy color ones. I need to get through the books I have there, they tend to be more fulfilling and much cheaper in the long run. I find myself wanting to be appropriately labeled “Voracious reader”
Otherwise, happy new year! Hope you are well.

