Size relates to the difficulty of completion or year-long sustainment, color (green to red) relates to importance.

As corporate America so often and inanely demands “actionability” so too will I try to make these as “actionable” as possible.

Work out

Meet the following milestones:

Bench my body weight
Squat 250
Do 10 pullups
Run a 10k
And the obvious: lose the gut

Better Manage the Online Presence

Unify all of my status updater network things (Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla) in a way that makes sense. Be less polar for Yelp reviews, write more often, and improve my spur-of-the-moment writing in terms of accuracy and quality.

MMOs: Kill Arthas

This must be the most decisive one. A whole lot hinges on my sticking to it.

Play WoW at most for story and contact with people I like. Quit completely and forever by July. On FFXIV, do nothing other than chat until 1L is over.

Overcome ADD and other psychological hurdles

I have a hard time keeping focused on any game or book, tend to spread myself thinly between all sorts of hobbies and desires, and waste a lot of time in the little free time I have. “Learn a language” below relates strongly to how bad I was about this in the advanced stages of Japanese.

So I’ll finish what I start, better maintain a to-do list on for daily/monthly/annual goals, and eliminate superfluous desires.

Do not miss Birmingham family events.

Missing Christmas was a first, a bummer, a stupid mistake. Like this, I want to always make it home for my mom’s birthday (or new years), my dad’s birthday (or easter), Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If work or school takes me too terribly far away from the family, for instance somewhere like Japan, I’d still want to make it for at least two.

“Learn a language”

To keep sharp ’til fall I want to remain mentally engaged. To do this, learning three types of languages come to mind: foreign, computer, and musical. Ideally I’d like to hone Japanese, learn one of many useful programming languages for fun, and get back into piano. Realistically, I may have to exclude some. I resolve to do two, well.

Monetary Responsibility

Chill on the big purchases

From now on I’m only going to spend big on things I absolutely need, like a car if I need one for school. Heads up: I’m going to become cheap.

I think to focus on the food budget from a cost standpoint would be a mistake. At the cheapest/fastest levels – McDonalds – I’d conflict with my work out goal if I tried to min/max here. Instead, I’ll attack the food budget from the large/wasteful level by making two separate budgets for groceries and restaurants, keeping the latter low, and sticking to it.

By the way, now is a better time than ever to plug Mint for how much it helped me keep a budget last year.

When I head home on Jan 21 I’m getting to meet with my financial advisor to make my first Traditional IRA contribution and discuss the most important short-term decision: law school and debt.

So this is the big one, but it isn’t much of a resolution because it’s still up in the air. Do I do it big and take a ton of debt at a higher ranked school, or take an attractive ultra-low-debt financial aid package from Alabama? Still have to get some results to have all the facts, but man this is weighing on me.

Complete business plan aspect of gaming royalty house

This might take a while. I want to complete the prospectus for the case where the gaming royalty house becomes a business rather than a symbol of rich excess. Who finances it, who pays to use it, who’s included in the ownership, who can use it, and sexy glossy paperwork all come to mind. This’ll be fun.

The colors made little sense.

Looking up I see a rainbow of senselessness, but I’ll leave it be. The one thing I didn’t address is work until fall. On the past few days traveling to and from work I have been attacked by the lowest temperatures I’ve ever felt. This isn’t just walking to the car either, sometimes it can be as many as 30 minutes. Achgfk.. So I’m targeting a transfer within a month and then if I see it’s not panning out I’ll try to find any random job near the apartment. However, due to what’s now an annoyance but may grow into something serious very soon I might not even BE in the apartment. Dealing with it though.

Happy 2010