10
Jan
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by Darren
I’ve been spending a bit of time pulling together some goals and planning for 2010. One danger of goals and plans is that they can be forgotten. You can print them out, but then if the print-out isn’t in front of you you’ll forget. You could use a snazzy web 2.0 app to remind you, but if you lose access, you lose your reminder.
So, how can I remind myself of what my goals are for 2010. I need a hook so that I can be reminded constantly. I remembered (and that’s key here) how memory works better when you can associate one thing with another. The more connections you can make the stronger the memory. (If there are any memory experts out there, please correct me if I’m getting this wrong.)
It’s 2010, and will be for the whole year. Therefore, how can I use that as a stimulus? Within a few minutes of thinking about this I pretty much had a plan for the year. And not just a plan but a means of reminding myself about the plan and goals within it.
It was all about the number 10. Everything that I wanted to plan and do this year would be connected to the number 10. It could be a multiple, a date in the month or divided by. So, here are my goals and plans for 2010 – personal but there is crossover into the professional.
- 1 Live my life true to my personal mission statement
- 10 complete 10 personal projects in 2010
- 100 Look at the 100 things challenge (possibly the original challenge or any of the others, or perhaps one of my own)
- 100 Develop a network of 100 influential people to share and develop ideas with (I am an I [INTP] networking is not me, but this year it will be)
- 1,000 Finish the year with a disaster fund of £1,000 (This is above savings and debt reduction – link to follow when I work out daytum)
- 1,000 Have 1,000 fans for a project (This could be for any of the projects above as I work through them)
- 10,000 Unique visitors on my sites. This is an aspiration but is not limited to this site, it will be a goal for all my sites
- 100,000 Have an annual income of, well I can dream. Without dreams we simply spend eight hours each night doing nothing
- 1,000,000 This number comes into play if any of the above go viral. Yes, it is another dream but as Joseph said in his musical, any dream will do
Oh, and if you haven’t noticed it is the 10th today. I’ll be reviewing these goals and plans on the 10th of each month. The simplicity of this is that anything related to the number 10 fits into it and can be used. Let’s see how it goes.
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and tagged: 2010, goals, hooks, power of ten, Productivity
25
Nov
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by Darren
I’m not a great film buff. I can’t discuss the finer points of film noir or indie cinema with you or anyone else. But I do enjoy watching films. I could give you a long list of movies that I have seen and I have liked.
There is also a list that contains films I haven’t liked. This list could be sub-divided into films I have been looking forward to and then been disappointed. One of the reasons for this is that I tend to over-hype the movie to myself. Even if the movie is better than average I have elevated it to a status that it couldn’t reach.
However, twice before I have hyped up a movie and seen it with great hopes and expectations. And twice before I haven’t felt let down. The first was The Terminator, yes very 80’s and a little dated now, but at the time it was everything and more than I expected.
The next was Aliens, a sequel no less. But once again, despite my very high expectations, it provided. The astute among you may have noticed that they are both films by James Cameron. The other films he has made are also ones that I would willingly sit through more than once… yes even Titanic.
Well, he is about to release another film. This one with an alleged budget of $230 million. Once again, as he did with Terminator 2, he is pushing the boundaries of what is possible with special effects. And once again I am looking forward to it. I am trying not to hype it up too much in my mind, but everytime I see a trailer I can’t help it.
So I’m hoping that it will be third time lucky and I won’t be disappointed. And if you’re not sure what I am on about, take a look at the trailer below for Avatar.
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and tagged: avatar, movies
13
Oct
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by Darren
One person can only take so much.
One person can only do so much.
Jesus was only one person.
Thank God.
I don’t think I’ve been coping too well with everything that has come my way recently. If I was a little younger I’m sure I’d be an emo or goth bemoaning the state of my sordid existence, but then if I lived in Palestine or Rowanda I may have a little more perspective than my comfortable western lifestyle allows.
So perhaps the eyeliner and back combed hair will go on the back burner – no comments please.
I’m still trying to find the ultimate solution to organisation, from David Allen’s GTD to Stephen Covey’s 7 habits, I can’t seem to pull it all together. Actually I think the problem is that I am looking to technology for a solution. And unless I code one myself, I’m not going to find it. The answer, I feel may lie in index cards.
Anyway, enough of this idle banter, what do I have to be thankful for, in no order?
- Keith Floyd – he’s gone but he was my inspiration for using chilli, galangal and approximate amounts
- Spotify – the best, by far, online music service
- First Cape Rose wine
- Getting up with you – The Yeah Yous
- CS4 – still thankful for this
- tags
- Keith Floyd – this guy is probably in my top five influential people in my life, so he deserves to be here again. I will eternally miss ‘a loving close up’ . If you don’t mind some pretty harsh language then this is a great interview.
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and tagged: floyd, spotify, yeah yous
13
Sep
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by Darren
I seem to have spent most of the last couple of weeks trying to organise a whole lot of online identities and applications that have multiplied exponentially. This is in part due to the interest in lifestreaming but also because things were getting in such a mess I really did feel like too many people.
The main bulk of this last week has been getting Thunderbird to link to my gmail account and a couple of other email accounts I have. That worked quite well and with the wind in my sail I proceeded to add the calendar function to Thunderbird and link that to gmail.
On a roll I then thought it was high time that my mobile syncing software was up to scratch. So after a trip to the SonyEricsson website, a quite download and upgrade, I had that synced too. Unfortunately I am unable to sync that to Thunderbird at the moment, but at least it is talking to my laptop, which it wasn’t before.
This week’s to be thankful for list is, in no particular order:
- ATMs
- Parents
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- AA insurance
- TheBigPic
- Dilbert
- Free thinking
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and tagged: gmail, thunderbird
09
Sep
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by Darren
I’m implementing a whole load of life-changers today. They are all aimed at making me a better person.
Why today?
Well, I thought the date would be a good one to focus on; 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year. And then why not at 9 minutes past 9 to make it even more significant.
The initial focus is on health and I’ll share more as I get into my stride. But suffice to say, there is no more fat pepsi going into my system.
Although the change starts today, I am not implementing everything in one go. I’ll be adding little by little, one thing at a time. Here goes.
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and tagged: development, health, Personal
