Goals & Plans for 2010

I once heard someone said that you have the luxury to dilly-dally until you are thirty. 2010 is the year I turn leave my 20's and enter the prime-time decade. (To be honest, I don't feel like I'm turning thirty, but that's a different story...)

I want to start my year right and I figured good old planning and goal setting session was in order. My girlfriend and I spent a couple of hours in a Starbucks shop (to my chagrin, really, because I've always been a fan of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf) during the first weekend of the year and we spent a couple of hours verbalizing our plans and goals for the year and putting them on paper.

Here are some of my personal targets for the year:

1. Health - Since we're all coming off the holidays and the food fests that come with it, getting into better shape is one of my goals. (Well, me and 95% of the city's population). I also target to eat better and do something physical (basketball, badminton, etc.) more regularly, like at least once a week. So if any of my friends are reading this, let me know when you're playing hoops. :P
   
2. Blogging - I target to be more disciplined when it comes to blogging. I plan to prioritize a couple of blogs (Screensucked & Big Lakers Fan) and gradually put less attention on Standard Web Standards and The AIM Blogger. The reason for this is that a) I think the web standards war is almost won and that web standards have already hit critical mass and b) I'm writing a free book about AIM MBA and that takes away time in writing at The AIM Blogger.
   
3. Community & Evangelism - This is very related to my goals on blogging. I plan to put in more content for the Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO) and the Mozilla Philippines Community. It may be in the form of blogging or another social medium. But the bottom-line is I want to make 2010 less about myself and more about the things I advocate and communities I'm part of.
   
4. Learning - A more idealistic goal here-- I plan to read at least one book a month. Not blogs, not websites, but books. I'm currently reading The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web right now. Why books? I think I need to extend my capacity to keep my attention on things.
   

There are other other goals I had set, but I think these ones are the goals worth sharing to the blogosphere. But if you ask me, the main theme for all the goals I've set is discipline-- It's really not about doing more things, but it's about being able to do things with disciplined execution. I think that's something a thirty-year old person would do. :P



Tags: 2010