Today is my 25th birthday. It feels like a milestone, something that needs to be marked and celebrated. Scarily it’s lead me to do a little thinking and life-pondering.
We’re fast heading for Q3 of 2010. I set myself the task of being organised this year, I’ve done better, but not great. I think this awesome cartoon explains it best (Well worth a read).
Anyway, this time I’ve decided to set myself 4 serious goals. 4 things to achieve, in the 4 remaining months of the year:
1. Build something in ruby on rails
2. Make something cool with Arduino
3. Release a WordPress plugin to the world
4. Write a paid article for another blog
All four of these things involve creating something and all four of them involve doing something new. The rest of my commitments still stand: my job, my blog, ExplicitWeb podcast, freelance work, planning the wedding, and general life. These four goals are about making progress, expanding my skills and achieving something tangible.
Here’s to progress. Mmmmm cake…
13th Sep
Toni Van de Voorde says:
I’m 3 days too late, but still … happy birthday ;)
And good luck with your ‘TODO” list :)
13th Sep
ErisDS says:
Thanks! You’re only 1 day late, not 3!
This is by no means my todo list though, that’s for certain. That has things like “cook dinner” on it. This is my “to achieve” list and it’s going to be far harder to check things off!
13th Sep
Japh says:
Happy Birthday! Sorry I missed it.
I thought you must’ve done #4 on your list already by now ;)
13th Sep
ErisDS says:
I’ve been nightmarishly busy at work. Can’t think why?!
Oh and wedding planning. I’ve spend the last few weeks catching up, all these things I should’ve done, I really need to JUST F’ING DO.