New Years Resolutions - 2005.
- Establish a healthier way of life (now that I seem to be “fairly” stable and know which activities help keep me that way)
ü Cycle or walk daily
ü Swim daily
ü Take plenty of short breaks
ü Don’t eat sweets or dairy products
ü Reduce the amount I eat at night
ü Drink more water
ü Learn to cope with pain and frustration (cognitive therapy or meditation)
ü Make it possible to work in as many enjoyable places as possible
ü Continue to improve on the limited success in not biting my fingers and lips!
ü Get my weight down to 11 Stone
ü Use my blog as an outlet for my interests (mainly those not funded by my company or shared by my family)
- Eat out once a week and take Debbie out at least once a week (Friday and Wednesday)
ü Wednesday is evening meal, Cinema or Theatre and maybe in the summer just walking/cycling
ü Friday is a walk and lunch or breakfast together
- Establish my new role at work
ü Final edit of what I think the conclusions are and my requirements
ü Have a meeting to agree them
ü Agree my work plan and key relationships
ü Prepare my development plan
ü Decide which vendors to establish relationships with
ü Write a letter to suppliers to use to ask or access to on-line materials and virtual conference attendance
- Learn a modern programming language (it’s too big a gap in my understanding of the fundamentals of modern computing)
ü Choose object oriented language with excellent support for manipulating XML and a reasonable GUI (Python or Visual Basic.NET)
ü Learn Object Orientation Principles
ü Properly understand XML, XPath, XQuery, Web Services etc
- Improve how I cope with my mild Asperger’s Syndrome
ü Learn the names of people I meet regularly, cafes, health club, restaurants, work etc
ü Use peoples names and try and make small talk
ü Cold call people for a chat as well as using IM
ü Use work meeting opportunities to have social meetings as well
ü Keep attending Library reading group
ü Keep momentum behind “old friends monthly lunches”
ü Present some “Lunch and Learn” sessions at work
- Increase the variety in the kids lives
ü Try and plan an activity each week either one night, or Saturday/Sunday afternoons, in addition to their wide array of regular activities
ü Get their friends involved or get them more involved with their friends
ü Make sure we take a good range of holidays
- Improve how I present written work and presentations
ü Improve my PowerPoint skills
ü Learn to write more clearly and with greater brevity
ü Develop a Documentation/PowerPoint style that allows people to tunnel into detail only when they need it
ü Improve my grammar
- Read more widely
ü Business Strategy
ü Innovation
ü Solutions Architecture
ü Sustainable Living
ü Personal Knowledge Management
ü Business Process Management
ü Political Autobiographies
ü Reading Group books
- Take lots of short breaks
ü London (train ticket voucher!)
ü Scotland
ü Chester
ü Lake District
ü Filey
ü Paris
- Refine my home lab and personal productivity
ü Learn to touch type
ü Learn to use voice dictation software
ü Refine my backup procedures – combination of Robocopy and Drive Image to USB drive [Adventures in home working]
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