a new year - new resolutions

the new year is always exciting as it gives us an opportunity to redeem ourserlves through some new resolutions and actions. this is a psychological issue. as anotny robbins says that if you want to change yourself you need not wait for the new year - you just need the will and start doing it for 21 days at a stretch and lo !! you would have formed the habit. however we humans have the uncanny ability of being able to very rigourously breaking what we promise ourselves. the "outliers" do not do that. they just be at it.

some of these insights have made me more wiser and i now make the following resolutions:

1. first blog more regularly - doing this now - target atleast 4 posts per month
2. read one book a week ( for 2009 - i am on target - completed Outliers, One night @ call centre and on my way to complete buy-ology, black swan and five point someone)
3. wake up in the mornings at 5 a.m.
4. exercise more regularly - daily 30 minutes - purchased a bicycle
5. eat right and at regular time intervals - less or zero oil, no sugar, very low salt
6. sleep more - get atleast 7 hours sleep
7. no coffee/tea - only water
8. get back into shape by dec 31 2009 - metrics - bm1 -24 ( 31 now); 80 kg (104 now);
9. pay off my housing loan
10. be in touch with friends - emails, phones, letters
11. get medical attention right - mother, daughter, wife
12. meditate daily - pray or be in silence for 15 minutes daily - be more calm and appreciate other view points
13. maintain daily learning log
14. do a lot of extenral benchmarking - professionally
15. add skills to cv - be able to regularly update
16. surf the net more regularly for learning
17. be more regular with my ta/da and medical reimbursements
18. get back to my habit of keeping track of daily spends and tallying of spends and money available
19. get into serious investments and start atleast now to create wealth for my child and family
20. give back to society by getting to help others - csr hours to be clocked by me in my personal time/official time whenever and wherever I can - find out causes where I can work and contribute to society
21. create a personal vision for me - vision 2015
22. attend all family functions
23. create a family tree
24. sort out all old pending issues on personal front with regard to homes - bangalore, tirunelveli and others.
25. watch less of television - read more - magazines, newspapers etc.

this is indeed an ambitious list to achieve in a year and will really test out the will and action orientation of mine. the good news is that atleast I have started off on most of these and will now need to keep track of achievements on this.

this is the best start i have made and I hope to capitalize on this.