While I think new years resolutions are somewhat cliche, I do think there is some value in evaluating your life trends periodically and finding places you've been over and/or under investing. The holidays are a time when a lot of folks do that.<p>My shortlist:<p>- Focus better. Become more efficient and either automate or delegate tasks that do not have the ROI on my time.<p>- Make better use of my personal time. I'd love to learn the guitar. Volunteer more. Learn to meditate.<p>- Stay in shape and make better food decisions. Of course this is a common one for many people.<p>- Spend more time with family.<p>How about you, OP?
Continue to be a part of a great team building a great product.<p>It's cheesy, sure, but it's very important to me. I love my job and see a great future for the company I work at. However, I can only continue committing 100% if I work with great people doing great things.<p>As such, my goals for 2011 will be encouraging an even better ambiance within our company, encouraging creativity and encouraging to constantly improve.<p>PS. Another personal goal is to build a foundation for the future for the cricket team I play in (2nds at VRA Cricket, Amsterdam). We won the league last year, but failed to promote in the play-offs.
I'll actually get my (short) film finished 2011 and hopefully in time to take it to Cannes where I'll eat <i>so many</i> hors d'oeuvres. More film nonsense but that's not too relevant for HN!<p>I'm also planning on building a few side projects this year and using them to learn python & node which I hope will help me smash the £20k barrier :) I also have an iPhone game idea that I will try and bash out (have held o to this idea since I had my Amiga and its time has come again).<p>And a holiday. I haven't a real, proper, more-than-2-days holiday in a decade. That <i>will</i> be happening!
My main goal will be to Get AT LEAST ONE PAYING CUSTOMERS FOR ALL MY APPS. Secondary goals include;<p>- Complete my courses and pass all its exams.<p>- Learn Ruby on Rails and build 3 more apps with it.
Get minesweeper.el into Emacs. Whether or not that occurs, start contributing to Emacs.<p>Given that minesweeper.el is winding down (I'm just working on mature optimization at this point), come up with one decent-sized useful project to hack on. Of course, I've said before that I thought it was almost done.<p>Learn Haskell and Forth. At least, become somewhat fluent.<p>Keep coding Lisp every day. My streak continues since July; let's see how long this can go for. How will learning new languages interact with this? I'm not really sure.
> While I think new years resolutions are somewhat cliche,<p>same. having said that, i only have to primary (read: realistic) ones:<p>- launch the paid version(s) of my pet project and start spending actual money to acquire users.<p>- design a better workout/diet program, one that actually has the ability to degrade gracefully depending on my schedule and travel, and stick to it.
My goal is to continue the 23% average monthly revenue growth in 2011 that I had in 2010. Then my side project revenue should match what I earn at my day job.
<i>What are your goals before the end of the world (?)</i><p>If I thought the world were actually ending, I would have completely different goals than I actually have (and they would sound rather Bacchanalian).