I’m a month and a half late, but better late than never, apparently.<\/p>\n
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I used to be really good at resolutions. Then, I just kept doing more and more stuff, and now I’m out of time and brain space for doing stuff. This past year, I ended up prioritizing and cutting out some activities that weren’t holding up. I gave up X-Wing and Blood Bowl. Still running 2 DnD games (for at least 2 more years, I think), and still playing Magic. Finding time to squeeze in video games (and I started streaming on Twitch, but that’s mostly free with playing video games).<\/p>\n
As it turns out, I’m still super busy with all my hobbies, but now I’m spending more time with the hobbies that matter to me.<\/p>\n
Resolution #1: Reading List<\/b> – Read 4 books this year, one per quarter. (Excludes Snow Crash, which I was supposed to finish last year, but didn’t I plan to finish it this month.)<\/p>\n
Resolution #2: Piano Videos<\/b> – Post 2 new piano videos, one in the first half of the year, one in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n
Resolution #3: Clean Weekly<\/b> – Spend at least 25 minutes a week cleaning. This excludes things I need to do daily or weekly, like dishes, or cleaning the litter box, or sweeping. The idea is to develop a cleaning habit so I can get ahead and keep ahead of household cleaning chores.<\/p>\n
I know negative goals are basically impossible to set. But I’m still going to set some, primarily as aspirational goals, even if it’s impossible to measure how successful I am at negative goals.<\/p>\n
Negative Goal #1: No more posting on Reddit<\/b> – Getting pulled into Reddit arguments is a huge time suck and brain suck. So with that in mind, I should stop posting on Reddit. I’ll make exceptions in the following cases (a) small communities (like r\/mtgdredge or r\/13thage) (b) shitposting (c) sharing something I created (d) asking a question that I need the answer to. This will be the toughest goal, but it’s something I should strive for.<\/p>\n
Negative Goal #2: No eating after 11pm<\/b> – My sleep schedule seems to correlate strongly with when I eat, so I should stop eating earlier. Also, not eating late at night is good for health reasons.<\/p>\n
Negative Goal #3: No playing new games until I finish the old ones<\/b> – I have a long backlog of games I need to finish, including but not limited to KotOR, The Witcher, Wasteland 2, Fallout 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. So instead of starting yet another game, I should finish one of the old ones. I’ll make exceptions for direct sequels and for The Outer Worlds. EDIT: And Carrion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Welp, I think I can do it this year. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a month and a half late, but better late than never, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-new-years-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}