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New Year's Resolutions

Monday, 29 December 2008

Ahh... Calvin and Hobbes, from my comic book days - which also included Archie and Mad Magazine (Many to spare if anyone would like to borrow!)... Sadly I'm not anywhere near close to being perfect so I have listed my new years resolutions accordingly!

1. Get Healthy It's time to lose those 10kg from last year... stop eating chocolate for dinner... and become a fighting fit blood donor again. This will be achieved with the aid of the CSIRO total well being diet and bike riding 30km per day to get to work and back! Progress to be tracked via Fit Day...


2. Carbon Footprint I will reduce my carbon footprint this year... both at home and at the office. According to the calculator on Greenroots Movement my carbon footprint during 2008 was 5699kg of CO₂-e for the year with the bulk of the emissions from food and transport. If everyone lived like me we would need 2.16 earths to be sustainable! I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the solar eclipse trip though... I don't really believe in offsets but I guess there is no other option apart from not going... At least I can grow lots of vegies to reduce the food portion!


3. Style The engineering geek thing has been fun but it's time to embrace femininity. Hopefully it will not necessarily involve lots of money - but I will try to be 'gorgeously green' :-) No promises of course as I really don't have an eye for it but I will try my best.


4. Creative Recycling I will give the creative recycling idea lots of attention and encouragement and aim for 1000 sales by mid year and 5000 by the end of the year... I think it holds a lot of promise and I'm really excited to see what people come up with!


5. Voluntary work This year I will do some face to face voluntary work instead of doing it all via the web... I'm really concerned about the impact of climate change on developing nations and indigenous communities in Australia so would perhaps like to volunteer for the SES... Alternatively more work with EWB, Word Vision or the ACF would be great. My dream job will be in this field one day!


6. Learning Since uni drained the desire for learning out of me it needs to be rekindled! Chosen fields of learning for 2009 are:
   - books
   - nepali
   - dancing
   - the art of conversation
   


7. Achieve at least 1 of the items on my 43 things list. 2008 was the house purchase, so 2009 is most likely going to be the solar eclipse but I could learn to Salsa as well, you never know... 2 left feet doesn't preclude dancing, it just takes a lot longer!


8. More focused blog posts I will try to stop rambling all over the place... As the blog is a personal one it will probably still meander through various fields but at least I can make each post more focused on the topic at hand.


9. Make 2 new friends As an HSP I don't get out as much as I should... I want to try and make 2 new friends (at least!) this year. No idea how to go about this yet, but will keep you posted... I guess this also involves being less sensitive!


10. Adventure Go on at least 1 adventure per month...

Now each blog post during 2009 will include progress towards these goals!

Oh, and I found out that I'm a creative travelling money manager:

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a Creative Traveling Money Manager 0% of the 10917 people who have taken this quiz are like me.

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