Resolutions, goals and aims. written by: Lee Richmond posted on: 04 January 2010
So, 2010 a new year, this means that for many its a time for making resolutions only to break them a few weeks later. For me resolutions represent something that has no goal, that we set ourselves at the start of the year knowing that we will not even make the slightest attempt of keeping up to them, I decided to take a slightly different tack and set myself a series of goals to try and achieve by the end of the year, nothing silly like stop eating chocolate and pizza (because we all know that’s not going to happen!) but some things I genuinely believed I could achieve within a year. Below is a list of the goals I set and how I did:
A new Car
Well as you can see from this blog post I succeeded in this one. I know the car I now have isn't exactly brand spanking new but lets face it, I wasn't interested in a new car, I've always been into my older Japanese sports cars and my MR2 is a beautiful car to drive and to look at.
A new job
I achieved this in August 2009 not exactly in the manner I had wanted but in my opinion being let go from Aspect gave me the push I needed, after being a solo developer for so long I wanted a chance to work as part of a development team and I am pleased to say that Coolpink gave me that opportunity.
A new Home
Well I haven't completely achieved this as yet but me and my girlfriend have signed the lease on a nice 2 bedroom house in Bramley, Leeds and we are hoping to move in within the next week or so. The only thing that stopped this being actioned before the new year was that the boiler needed to be replaced and with it being Christmas this was cutting things a bit fine.
All in all I think that setting goals rather than resolutions has helped me greatly in getting where I wanted over the past year.
so far for the next year I haven't decided what my goals are going to be, I think one of them will be to average at least one blog post per month. but we shall see.
