My resolutions to myself

I trust that you have read my Goals for 2018 😜. However, there are some other things which I don’t necessarily categorise as goals but wanted to write about; these are things that I want to make a conscious effort to do, or to stop doing. Does that make them a goal? I’m not sure 🤷‍♂ 🤷‍♂

Here it goes and I will probably add to/remove these as things change over time:

• Stop buying domain names and then never using them. I must have 30-to-40 alone on namecheap that I do not use and probably never will
• Reduce my dependancy on ‘stimulants’. Nothing major here — I don’t even drink coffee for example, but I do find that I regularly will not do something unless I have a ‘hit’ first. That hit could be anything — internet browsing is the primary offender if I am honest. Maybe a detox is required or maybe I need to lead a simpler life 🤷‍♂
• Be more purposeful/have a purpose, especially if I am doing something. If there is no purpose, then what is the point of doing it 😕 😕
• Lead a more minimal lifestyle — there is some stuff in my wardrobe that I don’t really wear or even need. I have gadgets that are gathering dust. There is things in drawers that I cannot even remeber that I have bought. Just too much ‘stuff’
• Taking time out to ‘smell the roses’ as they say. Aka just chilling out when I can — I don’t have to always be doing something. This one is a bit of a conundrum. My goal is to ship more, not to continue with my kamikaze like approach which inevibatly ends up with me not pursuing/not completing it, and generally ends up with me being frustrated and disillusioned or no longer interested. I have half started so many things but end up running out of energy or get easily disheartned or bored. Less is probably more. When I am learning something, I should focus on something small that work, that I can translate to something bigger rather than starting bigger and then not doing it :makesense:
• I ‘jump in’ too quickly. If I have the spark of an idea — then it almost immediately takes priority over whatever else that I can doing at the time. I think I need to give my ideas time to permeate and once fully formed, then prioritise accordingly
• Cancelling subscriptions that I do not use. I have had Netflix for close to 24 months — but the most I have watched is 90% of ‘Making a Murderer’ (about 8/9 episodes in total) Either starting using these, or cut them
• Declutter. I have a number of apps on my phone and laptop that I just don’t use. I have others because a subset of my contacts/friends use them. I have lots count of the number of emails I have across the web. I’m not hugely prolific on social media. Maybe I need to set myself some baseline thresholds for usage, and purge if I am below said threshold?
• Challenging more & challeging more often; to understand the ‘why’. Question authority. I work as a Product Manager in the telecommunications industry :yawn: . I won’t lie — the role is ill-defined. I think the best way to describe my role is an influencer who can apply common-sense logic. A lot of stuff I pick up are JFDIs (just fucking do it) that I have to run with. Challenging things to understand the real reasons why we are doing something, or why we cannot do something — will mean that it will ultimately show-up better to customers. This is something that I can also apply to my side gigs :smug:
• I have a social conscious with a business mind in my day-to-day role. At night when I’m tinkering, I want to solve the problems I or others like me face — but don’t ever really consider the business model or how the idea will be monetised. I’m successful in my day-to-day job but not yet in my side projects. The business mind for my side projects is lacking. Reading levels.io ’Turning side projects into profitable startups’ has been the kick that I needed
• Clarity of thought. Write more, speak more, and form an stronger opinions/views. If I can’t have clarity in my own thoughts; how can I expect to influence anyone to buy, use, and continue to buy, one of my products? Or to take me serious and see my business acumen. I notice that all of the directors who run the company I work in have a clear viewpoint (whether right or wrong 😉) and are taking seriously as a result
• Being more accountable. I guess writing things down is a start 😛
• Delegate more. Just because I am accountable does not mean that I am responsible. I can outsource a developer to do something rather than learn myself from stratch. Delegation should also include delegating to automation/robots where necessary
• Eat less meat. The past year or so has been really good for this and I want it to continue. I have learned how versatile things like lentils can actually be. I guess now that I am becomming more ‘worldly’ and have experienced different cuisines I am becomming more ‘open’. My cooking repertoire and my wallet 💰 💸 have benefited
• Tell & show how my feelings more in my personal life. I am at the funny age where I don’t yet have anyone truly depending on me 👶 🍼 and I don’t truly depend on anyone either 👴 👵 I grew up in an age when certain things are unspoken. I want to let people know closest to me, that I appreciate what they have done & sacrificed and that I ❤️ them. Similarly in my professional life — praise the person but criticise the task.
• Be who I am. Whilst I do want to ‘grow’ & optimise myself to an extent — I know who I am & what I stand for 💪 👊

Cool 👍 👍 writing this has actually been very cathartic & I can see some trends 📈 📈

The tl’dr in no particular order

• Do less, to make the stuff I do ‘do’, more valuable
• Cut the impulse buying — only when I need something, and have genuine reasons to buy — is when I should buy. Not just because I want it at that point-in-time 👊 Keep a list, and build before I buy
• Assert myself more & often
• Apply more critical thinking
• Be more frugal with my limited resources — time and money. Weigh up the balance of one versus the other

One thing that I notice, is that I am more concerned with money and growing wealth that I had originally thought :notsureifsad: I guess that shows that I am growing up 👦👨