New Year's Resolutions

Every year, round about the 31st December, 50% of the world sets themselves resolutions they intend to follow.

The other 50% is made up of a). Those people who don't celebrate New Year in December and so make their own resolutions at another time, b). Those that could not care to change anything and are content with what they have and c). Those that drank too much and cannot remember that it is a New Year.

99% of all statistics are also made up. I shall say no more.

Anyway, I decided to formally create a list of NYR's this year, with the hope of sticking to some of them. Here they are:

1). Get fit, Stay fit. This is a rather straight forward one. It involves me, a pair of running shoes and a newly acquired Garmin FR60 running watch. It also involves my legendary mountain bike (as debuted in http://cjwood1981.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010-what-year-part-1.html)
What it means though, is that I have to constantly maintain my level of fitness, rather than running solidly for a month, taking two weeks off and then having to fight the irritation of trying to get back into it. FAIL.
This will be facilitated through events and races (to be planned in advance) throughout the year that I can train towards and that fit into my work, life and MBA schedule. This blog will also be a test bed for my progress and my commitment to the cause, so please, feel free to constantly query this. I will thank you later.

2). Achieve in my MBA This is not a flight of fancy or a wishful gesture to my employers who have generously offered to pick up my MBA tab. I would like to really do well in my MBA and hopefully, actually kick its butt. This will not come easily and I may even need to open a text book this time around. Only time will tell.

3). Celebrate One Year Anniversary in Style. Come the 13th March this year, I will have been married to Helen for a year. Now considering that I know my schedule for MBA in advance (does anyone else get the impression here that my MBA will be dictating my life...hmmmm) I should be able to come up with something we can do that will mark the tremendous occasion of our nuptials and honeymoon fittingly. (also as debuted in http://cjwood1981.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010-what-year-part-2.html)
This will need to be planned, calculated and executed. As always.

4). Travel Less. Now don't get me wrong, if the bank needs to send me to Las Vegas or Mexico, Hawaii or Colorado for a work trip, then I am there, with bells on. If time allows and I get to go and watch Wimbledon or the British Open or cycle through the backcountry of Holland and Belgium, I am also there. And of course, if a weekend away to the Natal Midlands of the Kruger National Park are on the cards, only compulsory lectures will stop me. This resolution relates to always committing to everything and anything. In the past few years, Helen and I have spent so many weekends away, that our neighbours frequently state "Oh, we thought you had moved out?" This will need to be carefully managed. Coz I said so.

5). Have Christmas in our New House. This leads me to another issue altogether. For about 8 months now, Helen and I have been shopping around for a new permanent residence. This deserves a post all to itself and shall get one as it has been like a thriller. The kind where you never know what will happen until it happens.

In any event, for time and space on this post, this resolution relates to building our new permanent residence on an, as yet, undisclosed piece of land. Assuming this occurs and we find a seller who actually wants to sell the property they have listed (more detail later), we would LOVE, L-O-V-E to have Christmas 2011 in it. Is that too much to ask?!?

And there you have it, I have kept them short, as I can't focus on too many things at one time. Throughout the year, I will refer back to these and hopefully show some signs of progress. Otherwise they aren't really resolutions are they (wouldn't be very resolute of me if I didn't?)

oh...and I also started a blog. But if you're reading this, then you already know that