FLOW

Starting a new year is like starting a new job or new semester at school.  It feels like a clean slate, an opportunity to start fresh.  I guess that’s why everybody sets new years resolutions…it’s hard not to get caught up in the idea of starting over.  It’s too bad it’s not easier to the maintain the motivation you have on January 1 through the end of January or later in the year for that matter.  Like everyone else, I’ve got my list of new years resolutions.  I’m going to try to stay away from the cliches: lose weight, exercise more, etc.

Here’s my list:

• Last May I read Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. It’s a list of 64 steps/methodologies/concepts that successful people use. My goal in 2010 is to implement all 64 steps into my life.
• I’ve been talking about this next one for years, but have made zero progress towards it.  I’m going to learn a new language.  It may take longer than a year to get fluent, but that’s okay.  RosettaStone, here I come.  How will I measure the success of this goal?  Not sure yet, maybe it’s as simple as allocating a certain number of hours each week to this project.  I’ll say 5 hours a week for now, although that seems like a lot of time.
• I already have a goal of completing an ironman, so I guess I should add that to my new years resolution list as well.
• I read 47 books in 2009.  I love to read.  Someone coined the phrase: When you stop learning you’re dead. I agree.  I’m hope to read 50 books in 2010.  I’ll use Shelfari to track my progress, as I did last year.
• Be grateful.  I need to re-implement my gratitude journal.
• Maybe I should set some sort of social media goal: tweet more, become the mayor of something on foursquare, I don’t know…  I think the best use of twitter is to share information, links or interesting articles.  I can’t fathom why people care so much about what I am doing at any particular moment.  My problem is I rarely come across anything on the internet (cause it seems like every tweet needs a link to something) I feel is worth tweeting about.
• Finally, I do have one common goal.  Get rid of some debt.  We have a manageable amount of debt, but it would be nice to get the car paid off… say by June.

I’d like to add more professional goals, but I haven’t determined what they are.  I would suspect, most professional goals will take longer than a year to accomplish.  Perhaps this is something that I can identify as I work on the 64 success principles.