I have set a very high set of goals this year. I want to focus on me this year. I know I know that selfish however if you hear me out you will understand that everyone wins. My goals this year are three-fold become super-fit, have a focused mind, and to enhance my wealth. Well that is a tall order. However that being said there are few things I happen to know:
Balance is the key to success
Long-term self discipline only works with rewards
Only well planed strategy will work
So that means for my success I need to focus on balancing my life to accomplish these things. I need routine with rewards and breaks. I cannot run faster than I have strength. So here are a few things that I have thought to conquer in the future:
Super-fit:
Exercise
Diet
Sleep
Relaxation
Focused-mind:
Be healthy (see previous goals)
Read
Learn
Focus
Enhance my wealth(this doesnt not necessarily mean money):
Work daily
Balance Play/Work
Increase my efficiency
Learn
Contribute to society
So now lets convert these meta goals now that they are defined into tangible goals with tangible rewards:
Super-fit:
Sleep 8 hours a night-reward buy a new mattress
Eat according to the food pyramid daily with no more than 1500 calories a day–reward once every month get a binge day
Exercise daily–
Run 3 times a week
Workout 3 times a week
Play one sport
Go for a walk at least 1/2 hour daily
Focused-mind:
Read for half an hour daily
Find a new hobby ( balance)
Take a course
Learn a new skill
Go out of your comfort zone daily
Journal(blog) daily
Enhance my wealth:
Participate in a philanthropy project
Work an additional 1 hour a day on a personal project ( balance)
Balance my budgets weekly
Work on a new project
Now that I have some concreate goals to work I do two things once a week:
Select two goals from each category
Plan my week around those goals
Select an productive reward for each goal
Now I just need to do. I will let you know how it goes.
Someone sent me an email the other day that I should split my blog to my personal life and my tech ideas. I will definitely look into doing that.
In keeping with my latest theme of Canadian bands I though I would post a few more that I totally love. I cant remember when I first heard these bands however they are awesome. The first one is a band from the maritimes. Great Big Sea is definitely a Canadian institution. I dont believe there is a single Canadian who doesn’t know who they are.
The second band is a little less known but just as good. A Toronto based band that also has tons of appeal. Blue Rodeo is a band from way back. I am not much of country fan but these guys are good. Their music is not exclusive to country either. They sit on the border of country, rock and folk. Here is two songs that I love:
Here is a Canadian band from Toronto that gets very little coverage in the US. I honestly don’t know much about the rest of their music but I love this song. It makes me feel like despite all the troubles somewhere inside of we can find our center.
If there are two things that make me nostalgic about high school the first would have to be the Movie Can’t Hardly Wait the second would be the TV Show Glee. This youtube video posted below is a musical clip from Glee and boy does this lady have a voice.
On December 27 the entire tech world will hold its breath. A new device dubbed the ‘iSlate’ is going to be released on Wednesday January 27th, 2010 by Apple. Apparently from various sources this new product is in a tablet format. This new product is supposed to represent the crown jewel of Steve Jobs’ career. Let the endless debates of price, shape, functionality, networking, and business sense to be debated for the next twenty two days. Anyhow stay tuned to have a review on release day.
Over the past few years as “the cloud” has become a source of delivery it has also become a place for your repository. I write on this blog if nothing but for myself. Backup has become key when services such as Mozy, Carbonite, and my personal favorite JungleDisk have become key players in cloud storage. While these services cannot be construed as expensive they are still not free or less than free. These solutions are not good a syncing across say my work and home computer.
Others have used services such as gmail with plugins. Or better solutions such as SkyDrive or Mesh. The problem is these services have a limited amount of data available for sync.
Dropbox.com is finally the solution that I wanted. Web and desktop synchronization. This solution tops my web application of 2009. Dropbox is the perfect solution to say a Mesh/Jungledisk hybrid. The software is simple to install and configure. I can access the web from anywhere and my folders are in sync when I work from home.
More notably know for “Boston” and “Sweet and Low.” Augustana is band with real talent. Poetry born in the heart, is how I would classify their music. While listening to the combination of words matching the harmony found in their music you see a rare mastery to invoke emotion with mediums. John Mayer, Jack Johnson watch out this band has a core ability that could have them rival the long standing solid yet deep thought music of U2 while focusing on their acoustic roots.
Tonight I thought I would cover two of my favorite artists. Most younger people today know him for his “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Unfortunately many of my and younger generations haven’t have much exposure to Bob Dylan. Hopefully he will experience a resurgence as time carries on.
My second artist is a man of whom I will ever love his music. Right until his death his music was pure and from the heart. Here is a man who watched music tastes change and move on his music remained pure to the very end. Johnny knew a tough life and every song came straight from his heart.
I always enjoy checking out UI (user interface) concepts. I am both a sucker for eye-candy, visual development and good usability. If someone has done their homework then you can always see it. The team at Mag+ have hit a visual development schema that will influence ebooks of the future. Although their design definately works for magazines I don’t want to see this design implemented for textbooks.
I will let you know how it goes.
