My New Year's resolutions for 2010

Ah, it's New Year's Eve, and time to actually make some resolutions for the coming year. I don't recall if I made any last year, and if I did I don't have any idea what they were.

  1. Keep a to-do list for my personal life like I do at work. At my job I am reasonably well organized with a to-do list that maps out all of my active tasks. I've lately been finding myself somewhat unmotivated, probably because I can't see at a glance what I need to work on - which means I procrastinate and feel overwhelmed.
  2. Along with my to-do list, I'm going to try to keep a list of active projects, both at work and at home, so that I can get a good bigger picture view of what is going on in my life. This is a piece of the Getting Things Done system that I tried to implement once, but never managed to keep going.
  3. Continuing on in the GTD vein, I'm resolving to do a weekly review, both at work and at home. My work one will be Friday afternoon, and my home one will be on Sunday afternoon.
  4. I'm also going to really try my hardest to write a new blog post at least once per week. That means every week I'm going to write at least once. I guess I'd better sit down and come up with a good list of topics. Any suggestions?
  5. I'm organizing the Animal Advocacy Camp coming up in just a few weeks, and I'd like to resolve to organize a series of smaller events focused around envisioning animal rights. If that topic doesn't seem to be a good one, then I'll at least aim to organize a series of smaller dialogue events about something to do with animal rights.
  6. I'm also going to resolve to read more books by women this year. To make it measurable let's say I'll read 4 novels written by women this coming year.

Comments

Glenn:

Thanks Alison! The to-do list, weekly review, and active projects list ideas are all from David Allen's Getting Things Done.

I wrote a little review of the book a while ago:
http://blog.liberationbc.org/2009/07/activist-tips-getting-things-done/

Alison C.:

Glenn, those are such great resolutions. Thanks for sharing. It even helps me with my resolutions, I think, to read yours. I like your idea of a weekly review. I've never officially done that before. I review the number of hours I've put into a week, but not the actual tasks I've accomplished. I also like your idea of a list of active projects. Something for me to think about. And reading more books by women authors. Wow, I just want to read more books, period!

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