Mr. Wang, a fellow Singaporean has recently written a facinating blog post, challenging his readers to challenge themselves to achieve bigger things in life by attempting at and perhaps failing (hard) at those things.
So here are my five big goals (in order of importance).
1) Make FunkeeMonk Technology a financial success (instead of just being a good learning experience) by continuing to polish and improve FunkeeStory, and improving upon the ways I market it.
2) Learn Erlang for The Secret Next Big Project.
3) Improve my photography by taking more photographs and showcasing my work online, reflecting on my own work and the works of others. First step though is to process the immense backlog of over 4000 photos i’ve built up over the years using Lightroom.
4) Train up to be able to finish a marathon, hopefully by year’s end. I hope my existing ankle injury won’t prevent me from achieving this goal!
5) Learn to play a musical instrument (most probably a MIDI keyboard hooked up to Propellerhead Reason). Its been years since i’ve last played any instrument, and I dearly miss playing music.
I would love to hear about your goals too, so list them below by leaving a comment!
UPDATE: Posted a comment below recounting some of my past goals - both successes and failures.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
And here are some of my recent goals that i’ve set for myself in the past.
Failures
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1) Kendo - Although I did learn it for around 8 months or so, I quit the sport as I picked up an ankle injury. Upon some reflection, I also realised that I didn’t really enjoy it as much as I thought. I may pick this up again if my ankle situation improves and I feel the urge for some training in controlled agression again. :-)
2) Cook for my family once a week - Its mostly reduced to cooking once (sometimes twice) a month for my girlfriend and myself only now.
3) Learn to focus a lot better - an ongoing effort, but I regard this as a failure for now.
4) Play weiqi - I’ve mostly quit playing now, mostly due to lack of interest. I’ll probably pick it up again if I regain interest in the game.
Success
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1) Leave my old job to become an independent Mac developer - although its not a financial success yet, at least i’ve made the move!
2) Follow a vegetarian/flexitarian diet.
3) Learn to live frugally - somewhat successful, I now live very happily using much less money than ever before. The fact that FunkeeMonk Technology is still alive is mainly due to this one successful goal really.
4) Pass IPPT - Success! No RT for me this year! :-)
5) Make it to WWDC 2007! - Although it has hasn’t happened yet, I consider this a success since i’ve got everything arranged for the trip now. :-)
6) Write a blog again.