{"id":2978,"date":"2009-01-03T06:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T06:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2009-01-03T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T06:42:21","slug":"resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’m not much for formal lists, I do like to make some resolutions for change or improvement each year. Last year I was pretty good at following through on at least half of them and fair on most of the rest. Here are\u00a0a few\u00a0of mine for 2009, no particular order:<\/p>\n

Read more books that are out of my field – especially those about\u00a0Science<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

While I’m an avid reader I noticed recently that my reading habits have gotten pretty narrow in the last few years\u00a0and that’s not good. While drilling down on subjects that one already knows well increases expertise, learning new information is a critical catalyst for creativity and insight.\u00a0Science holds so many keys for future evolution as a society that I feel a need to get a better grasp on the potential of\u00a0major scientific trends. Book suggestions here from readers are welcome.<\/p>\n

Become a better informed, more upscale, drunkard<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Excepting hot summer days and certain events, my consumption of beer has dwindled down to very occasional bottles of really good microbrew.\u00a0 Wine and scotch are more appealing at social occasions or at dinner and I’d like to learn more about them. Not so much to become a connoisseur as to know what the hell I’m talking about and not waste money on bad selections. I picked up some Glenlivet<\/a><\/strong> for my friend Shane’s<\/strong> holiday roadtrip stopover but, alas, the Wizard<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0& co. lost\u00a0their way in Wisconsin \ud83d\ude09 and never arrived.<\/p>\n

Diversify my workouts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having done bodybuilding and powerlifting for over twenty years, I’m experiencing some wear and tear issues from the repetitive stress as well as boredom. Every January, I tighten up my diet and intensify my training but this year I’m going\u00a0to widen the spectrum of exercises, do more conditioning and try periodic cross-training.\u00a0 I’d like to jump back into martial arts like Dan from Madison<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0( though not Muay Thai, I ache enough from lifting weights) but given the time\u00a0constraints of grad school, that will have to wait until 2010.<\/p>\n

Take the kids on more “field trips”:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Eldest<\/span><\/strong> and the Son of Zenpundit<\/strong> <\/span>are now at an age where they will be able to appreciate museums, cultural events, outdoor sites and doing new things. Time to get out and explore!<\/p>\n

Set and pursue\u00a0strategic goals but include “downtime” as one of them:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have to say that my lifestyle since midsummer was too frenetic to be healthy. While I had a lot of concrete and significant\u00a0accomplishments in 2008 compared to previous years, I also took on too much, left many tasks unfinished, failed to follow up on occasion and shortchanged my best in order to do “more”. I fell into the habit of sleeping around 4 hours a night in order to read more, write, blog or get in mundane tasks and I’d keep it up until I either got sick or lapsed into unproductive vegging. It’s too much and I’m going to schedule more\u00a0“unplugged” time and learn to say “No” to low priority or non-value added tasks ( this will be the hardest resolution for me to keep).<\/p>\n

What are your resolutions ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’m not much for formal lists, I do like to make some resolutions for change or improvement each year. Last year I was pretty good at following through on at least half of them and fair on most of the rest. Here are\u00a0a few\u00a0of mine for 2009, no particular order: Read more books that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-570","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}