New Year 2012 Resolution and Tracker Thread

Before you say, "MEH", thinking to new year resolutions, I must tell you, that even if fulfilling "resolution" is a myth, making some does help in recognizing our priorities, and is a first step towards achieving that.

So share what do you want to accomplish in 2012. What change would you like to see happen in yourself. What do you want to learn, and what do you want to forget.

It would be great if this thread serves as a time capsule, to which we can look back the next year, and tally what we were able to accomplish, and what would be carried to the next year. (Provided world doesn't end in Dec 2012.

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1) Have to sleep before 12 and start Jogging!!
I have been unable to sleep before 4 from last few months and have been going late to office .

Worst of all is, i get real sleepy by 10-11 pm on fri and saturdays. But no!! Not on sunday !! Scumbag brain!!

Work hard in my studies as I will be class 12 then. This year they have fallen to a all time low.

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Early to bed and early to rise. I badly need some discipline in my life.

eggman said:
1) Have to sleep before 12 and start Jogging!!
I have been unable to sleep before 4 from last few months and have been going late to office .
Worst of all is, i get real sleepy by 10-11 pm on fri and saturdays. But no!! Not on sunday !! Scumbag brain!!

exactly my problem

My resolution: Go to bed early and wake up early!!

-get up early...sleep early
-eat healthy and join a gym or do exercise regularly
-forget bitter things about my brkup....have been depressed from a long time now...hv to get over it.
-learn as many web technologies as I can

--start healthy diet....
----quit smoking....
----resuce driniking....
--then sleep early and get up early...

oh god this seems to exact as last years resolution........

It's time people realize to stop procrastinating and start with your resolutions now. New year resolutions are stupid.

-Onsite
-Forgetting is not an option
-new monitor and gfx card

@SyGeek: Of course, new year resolutions are stupid. As I said, they seldom works out.
But the whole point of writing down your resolutions is to atleast get a fair idea, of what we desire from ourselves. You can't do anything, unless you plan for them!!

Btw, looks like most of the resolutions people make are to change the sleeping habits and to start exercises. Well, this was my last year's resolution. Couldn't fulfill. So decided not to make it a priority.

This year, MY resolution is to be less of a procrastinator, stop thinking about doing things, and start DOING it. I have lost too much, this year just wishing to do a lot of tasks. But failed in a lot of attempts. This year I would make sure I put priority to completing tasks rather than just jotting them on paper.

Of course next priority would be to improve on my Software Engineering skills, and use it to get a better job then the current one. Following are the materialistic things that I wish to buy this year:
1. New System (as Awesome as I can afford)
2. Get subscribed to digit. (until now I am a news stander buyer, or 3 month subscriber)
3. Make improvements in my home, like buying an Oven, and installing a geyser.
4. Avail the $299 gift voucher at amazon.com that I haven't since March 2011.
5. Gift my dad a better mobile.
ok.. that's enough for this year!

find a new admin.

Quit forum-ing...

My new year resolution will be 1440 * 1080.

dashing.sujay said:
Quit forum-ing...

Self control is the best medication.
Quitting an addiction is near impossible! :lol:

axes2t2 said:
My new year resolution will be 1440 * 1080.

Upgrading to a high res is indeed, Good!

@Vineet
Hopefully

to sleep at least 5 hrs or more...everyday...

Will dedicate to TDF

....finally

@Ankit: Or 5 hrs of sleep .."in single stretch"...

@CA50: Don't know your history, but glad to have you back.

^ about my history, i skipped some ~2 years from this forum

vineet369 said:
Self control is the best medication.
Quitting an addiction is near impossible!

Yeah, but i've controlled it to a lot extent and though I remain active all the time, I just spend time more wisely.

to reach office atleast before 9.30

really finding it difficult to wake up before 9 these days

- Reach office by 9:30
- Exercise on a regular basis
- Save some money, no more gadgets
- Get a new job ASAP

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will study for coming years in college!!
This is the most difficult new year resolution

use fewer health and mana pots

Ok, I realized that I didn't put any of the resolutions which really are of grave importance to me.

Following I have to do in next 6 months...

Studying enough for 5th sem, to componsate for the loss of marks in previous sems.
Learning C from the beginning, the ANSI way
Practice on Java and .Net to finally be able to complete projects
If I get more time, invest time in learning Android SDK and Web languages like PHP

One more:
Figuring out things myself..
(but then whats the purpose of TDF again?)

-->spend less time on gaming
-->coding and coding and coding...
-->install Arch linux successfully :/

Ok.. so now that we have made my resolutions (kinda), it's time for the "tracker" part.

Everybody knows, its difficult to track a resolution. One way to do that is to write a diary entry each day, to list whatever you want to track. But it's near impossible to do so due to lack of will, literately skills or just sheer laziness.

P)

I have tried to overcome this problem by creating a form using Google Doc. I have filled it with some generic questions regarding daily life like, What did you accomplish today, which place did you visited today, what did you buy and what were your experience today....

Now, a user can easily just fill a form before going to bed at night, and it will be automatically logged into a google spreadsheet.

Best part is that, the URI of the form can be made tiny and meaningful with services like goo.gl and bit.ly and then they can access the form from anywhere and anytime, and log and fill up their daily form.

Here is what I created as a form... (not sharing my URI)

*i.imgur.com/qNRLa.jpg

Vyom said:
@Ankit: Or 5 hrs of sleep .."in single stretch"...

yup.....