You know, I just didn't know what to name this thing. I googled the number 12 for inspiration and after staring at the wall for some time, I went in the direction of Cliff Claven. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to post a link to the video this thread title is referencing.
I have come up with a new approach this year in terms of both fitness and resolutions. In terms of fitness, I have developed my own app inside the tool I work with. It is a fitness-app that tries to model a well-rounded lifestyle that includes food, sleep, exercise, and mental wellness. I have been modeling this for a few months and I just completed the first pass of it yesterday. Next steps are to make it work on the mobile version of the app. This is a 2 part effort. First is for the health aspect of it. Second is to better learn a piece of the tool I work with in terms of being better with the tool.
If anyone wants to hear more about the fitness model I created, I can go into that. In time, if anyone wants to try and use it, I would love user experiences/feedback but I am not there yet.
In terms of resolutions I have gone with the number 12. It sort of sprung out of a podcast I was listening to the other day. The guy said he wanted to make some food by hand that he had previously bought. Last year it was bread, this year whipped cream. Anyway, I don't know if he said it but I thought, well, if you wanted to learn to bake bread as a resolution maybe baking a loaf a month on average is a good way to do it? I mean, if you were that serious about baking bread I would think maybe it makes sense.
Anyway, I have come up with a series of things that I want to do 12 times this year at least. This goes hand-in-hand with my approach to Xmas this year. I went for experience gifts for everyone. The kids, D, my parents, D's brother & sister - everyone got experiences. So this is sort of my approach this year.
Do things, and blog about them. I have come up with a list of 9 things that I want to do 12 of. My intention is to blog about each one when they come to pass. My blogging isn't really biking-related anymore. But of course some of them will be bike adventures and other things will be with people I know from the bike world. But my days of blogging 6x1:1 intervals is no more. In addition to the doing things, if I am successful at this I will end up writing at least 12*9 blog posts with content this year. So I guess writing more content is also an outcome of this.
The 9 things:
I have come up with a new approach this year in terms of both fitness and resolutions. In terms of fitness, I have developed my own app inside the tool I work with. It is a fitness-app that tries to model a well-rounded lifestyle that includes food, sleep, exercise, and mental wellness. I have been modeling this for a few months and I just completed the first pass of it yesterday. Next steps are to make it work on the mobile version of the app. This is a 2 part effort. First is for the health aspect of it. Second is to better learn a piece of the tool I work with in terms of being better with the tool.
If anyone wants to hear more about the fitness model I created, I can go into that. In time, if anyone wants to try and use it, I would love user experiences/feedback but I am not there yet.
In terms of resolutions I have gone with the number 12. It sort of sprung out of a podcast I was listening to the other day. The guy said he wanted to make some food by hand that he had previously bought. Last year it was bread, this year whipped cream. Anyway, I don't know if he said it but I thought, well, if you wanted to learn to bake bread as a resolution maybe baking a loaf a month on average is a good way to do it? I mean, if you were that serious about baking bread I would think maybe it makes sense.
Anyway, I have come up with a series of things that I want to do 12 times this year at least. This goes hand-in-hand with my approach to Xmas this year. I went for experience gifts for everyone. The kids, D, my parents, D's brother & sister - everyone got experiences. So this is sort of my approach this year.
Do things, and blog about them. I have come up with a list of 9 things that I want to do 12 of. My intention is to blog about each one when they come to pass. My blogging isn't really biking-related anymore. But of course some of them will be bike adventures and other things will be with people I know from the bike world. But my days of blogging 6x1:1 intervals is no more. In addition to the doing things, if I am successful at this I will end up writing at least 12*9 blog posts with content this year. So I guess writing more content is also an outcome of this.
The 9 things:
- Go to a show or a museum, or an event, comedy club, etc. This one will be easy because I got D a bunch of tickets to shows for Xmas.
- Cook something new, something I have never cooked before. Example: I have never baked a cake in my life. I need cake like I need herpes. But like that's just an example.
- Bike adventures, promoting, notable rides, travel to new places, etc. This one is more vague and honestly may not happen. I am not sure how to fully define this one given my history with bikes. What counts as notable?
- Adventures & weekends with the kids.
- Read 12 books.
- Movies that I have never seen, or have been meaning to see. You know I always have this idea that I would watch some of the classics. Maybe I'll pick a few this year and do that.
- Have dinner with friends either out or at home. I think this sounds easier than it is. I don't mean eating dinner with a group of people like we often do with the team. I mean having a more meaningful get-together with people. The kids of events that we all want to do but never seem to have the time for.
- Eat at places that are 2$$ and 4+ stars on Yelp. Yelp is our food spiritual leader. We almost never go out somewhere with less than 2 $$ and 4+ stars when we are trying to get a really good meal. This approach has almost never failed us.
- Projects around the house, personal, etc.
