I’ve never been big on new years resolutions. Though the beginning of a year is a good point to stop some bad habits, and start some good ones. I decided I want to change a few things this year.

• Eat better.
  I recently went a nutritionist who gave me some good advice. My current diet isn’t that bad anyway since I cut down on eating pizza & burgers and the like on a regular basis. Still room for improvement though. I still don’t get enough of certain foods.

• Give up soda / drink more water.
  This ties into the above. I drink far too much sugary crap. Even the ‘flavoured water’ stuff is out. No more corn syrup & crystaline fructose for me. The money I save on buying these will instead be spent on water filters.

• Exercise more often.
  Continuing again with the ‘be more healthy’ kick. I had something of a wake-up call last year when I had a medical exam, which kickstarted me into actually doing _some_ exercise. Prior to that, I was a complete couch potato. I need to do more, and more regularly.

The changes I want to make aren’t just ‘be more healthy’. Here’s some other things I hope to achieve this year.

• Be more creative.
  I have a bunch of musical instruments. I rarely show anyone what I do with them. Possibly because I’m not ready to be judged, because I know I’m not necessarily that good. I need to a) get over that fear and b) get better at them.

• Do new and different things.
  I feel I’ve been stagnating somewhat the last year or two. I’ve learned some new things, but it’s mostly through necessity. I want to do some things outside of my comfort zone. For example, it’s been a long time since I’ve done any UI programming. It’d be nice to do some non-plumbing programming once in a while. Perhaps even in a new language. I had fun recently playing with processing to do some fun visualisation things. Perhaps more of that.

• Read more books.
  I really suck at reading books. In the last year, I lost count how many started. But I know how many I finished. Zero. My english teacher would be very disappointed. This sounds like an easily achievable goal, but I get distracted far too easily. I need to carve out a chunk of time to do nothing but read. At least once a week. Actually, I did finish some books, but they were of the instructional variety, and I kind of skimmed past some of the dull chapters, so I don’t think they really count.

So that’s my hand-wavy goals for 2009. This time next year, I’ll make another post to see how many of these I failed at.

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