A Curmudgeon Technologist » goals2006

Hidden Calories

lolindrath — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:12:29 +0000

Are you having trouble losing weight even though you’ve cut your calories? Watch out for hidden calories, I mean foods you wouldn’t normally think of when? you log your food for the day:

Gum – Go for low sugar alcohols, manufacturers don’t have to list them under sugar but they are still converted into calories
Altoids
Barbeque sauce
Half and half or creamer in coffee
Diet drinks (they still have some calories)

Nike Free’s

lolindrath — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:35:00 +0000

I got a pair of Nike Free’s on sale over Christmas vacation at Finish Line. I ran yesterday and the day before for just 10 minutes at a time and my ankles are really really sore. That’s sore as in I exercised them too much.

The whole point of these things is to train as close to barefoot as you can (or as society allows) and it definitely works.

I have to say, their initial color picks suck but I’m glad they did that ’cause that means the last years’ model I bought was cheap.

Mini Goals

lolindrath — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:41:46 +0000

I think I mentioned in my last post that I have eight main goals, I’ll discuss those later, for right now I want to talk about the concept of my mini goals.

I have about 70 of these suckers. They have no specific end date of when they need done and some could be done tomorrow if I chose to. They range across all subjects and the point of them is to give me a break from my main goals if I chose.? They will hopefully spice it up enough that I can stick to my goals. I’ll give three examples:

Finish a bottle of multivitamins before they expire. Seems easy right? I have till 2008 on this bottle but I’ve went through about three bottles that have expired that I can think of. My strategy for this is to keep them at work right next to my monitor in plain view so I take them.
Send back food at a restaurant. I’ve had some really awful food before but I’m always too nice to send it back. The next time I get bad food? I intend to send it back and complain to the manager.
Learn to play Go. My friend Carey has been trying to get me to play Go for the longest and I just haven’t made time to properly sit down with a board and a book to do this but its definitely something I want to learn.

In conclusion, using these to spice up my year goals will keep me interested in furthering myself and keep me on task.

Clarification Update: I don’t have to do all of these mini goals this year, they’re just side-tasks when I get bored.

[tags]resolutions, goals, running, go, board game, health[/tags]

Dumping an interest

lolindrath — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:57:18 +0000

A while back I was mildly interesting in investing. I subscribed to all the RSS feeds I could find and read all kinds of tips about how I can get rich quick and maximize my 401(k). After reading Merlin Mann’s Cancel Something on 43Folders I definitely figured out I needed to ditch this.

I decided I need to focus on my eight goals for this year, investing isn’t one of them. I’m sure I’m missing out because I won’t be budgeting with Quicken and tracking each penny like miser but the over-arching goal is to get healthy.

This also really cleaned out my RSS feeds. The dude at Free Money Finance posts a million times a day which means that’s a million more times I’m distracted a day so I might see a slight improvement in productivity.

I could definitely use a few more of these sessions with some of my other occasional obsessions…

[tags]resolutions, goals, merlin mann, 43folders, gtd[/tags]