Top10 improvement thingies for 2010
Why do it? Why fall prey to the non-uniqueness of the annual resolve? To improve. To grow. To reflect. To add a few hundred random bits to the nets. But mostly to look back–then forth–then back again, to figure out what the hell I should do this year. And the theme this year: focus and polish.
- Cut the crap. Drop the extra blogs, sites, and other things that I’m not actually maintaining. Work on a few things and do them well.
- Finish books. Start more of them too. Read without skimming. Disappear between the pages. Get a library card and explore the Public Domain and Creative Commons. Feed that mass of grey synapses.
- Start fewer new projects. Finish the ones I start. And don’t just finish, polish the crap out of them. Literally.
- Be more kind. Assume the best (or most likely) in people. Understand where they are, make peace with it, and enjoy the differences.
- Contribute to the Creative Commons. Write something. Hack at some bits. Give it away now.
- Spend more time with people and less time with television, video games, and other things that waste the time away.
- Escape the grind. 70 hours a week is not productive. 60 isn’t either, not focused on one thing at least. Be more productive by applying my time and synapses better.
- Consume less. Enjoy more. Taste. Contemplate. Ponder. Relax.
- Make more. Paint. Carve. Cook. Draw. Write. Hack.
- Hone the tools. Body. Mind. And mad ninja skills.
What are you going to do this year?