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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

New Years Goals.

No, they're not resolutions - those have a tendency to never work. They're goals, things to do and accomplish throughout this year. Here's my list: What's on yours?

New Year's Resolutions for Chris, 2005; Edited Version

  1. Significant Lifestyle Change
    1. Exercise minimum of 2x / week
    2. Eat a balanced, healthy diet
    3. No more fast food
    4. Sleep a solid night´s sleep (7.5 - 8.5) every night
    5. Work a 40 hour work week with very few exceptions
    6. Drop weight to 175 - 180
  2. christindall.com
    1. Blog 1/ week (yeah yeah, I know...)
    2. Develop photography resources
    3. finish photo gallery software, develop personal gallery
  3. Attend church every week
  4. Take a sabbath every week
  5. Pay off owed money
  6. Pay bills on time
  7. Focus on one main business
  8. Develop a "Life Plan"
  9. Purchase a house, on land, with business / income opportunities
  10. Purchase a Digital SLR (EOS 1Ds Mark II) (or Nikon D70) - Realistically (? - Digital Rebel)
  11. Purchase a mountain bike
  12. Study Photography
    1. History and Technology
    2. Styles
    3. General Rules
    4. Mechanics of a Camera
    5. Technical and Compositional Issues
    6. Famous Photographers
  13. Improve communication skills
  14. Set boundaries in my life: personal, business, relationships
  15. Keep apartment clean and organized at all times
  16. Manage my time better
  17. Manager our money better
  18. Keep Calendar and Schedule up-to-date (thanks for the Zire Mom and Dad!)
  19. Write "Tindall Update" once / month
  20. Renew "lost" relationships and nurture all relationships
  21. Help Jon and Alia with any wedding items / tasks possible
  22. Learn to:
    1. simplify life
    2. Be Patient and Content
    3. Build / Repair facilities
    4. Garden / take care of property
  23. Learn something new and unique about Janene at least once / week
  24. Show Janene my love every day
  25. Surprise Janene at least once a month
  26. Help Janene grow
  27. Become the spiritual leader of the home
  28. Journal every day
  29. Shut up and listen, and don´t always try to solve the problem
  30. Have all gifts made or purchased one month before the event
  31. Finish all contracts in January; then only accept full paying contracts
  32. Develop Seasonal Essentials to a point that it can support the partners full time, including facilities and expenses
  33. Order our wedding picture reprints (yeah, we STILL haven´t done that...)
  34. Frame our Vettriano paintings
  35. Make our wedding DVD
  36. Organize computer files and backup system regularly
  37. Become a better husband
  38. Take dance lessons, and develop awareness of my body and space
  39. Do one thing a month that challenges me or stretches me past my comfort zone
  40. Stop talking, start doing.
  41. Learn how to make books and journals, and then make some.
  42. Save $1500 towards a trip to Europe
  43. Hike Monte Cristo
  44. Sell Volvo
  45. Sell Dart
  46. Develop "Multiple Income Streams"
  47. Learn to draw people / portraits

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2 comments:

Bob said...

Good grief. That's an awfully ambitious list. That's enough resolutions for four people for 10 years. Most people just say something like, "Stop drinking myself into insensibility every weekend."

I would particularly like to mock you for #38. If you're not already aware that you have a body, then you need to make that a much higher priority.

In all seriousness, though, I'd say you probably should try and make resolutions that are specific. Just resolving to "Improve communication skills" is so vague as to make it impossible to know when you've achieved it. Whereas "Attend church every week" is both eminently doable and very easy to keep track of how you're doing and whether or not you are achieving your goal.

10:07 PM
Chris Tindall said...

lol - that's funny! It is a lot of goals. To be honest, I'd be really happy to simply start moving towards those goals (instead of necessarily reaching the final solution to them). Those like that are on my list to remind me to work on them over the course of the year.

Yeah, I just noticed I had this body thing. Definitely something I'm gonna have to work on!

As to the specific-ness of my resolutions, I agree with you 100%. But what you're reading is the edited list, and not the full list of my goals. Most of my goals are already more flushed out than they appear here; for those that aren't, they're in the process of being flushed out.

Thanks for the thoughts, though - I'll definitely keep them in mind while I'm working through things. :)

11:07 PM

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