Digital Immigrant

Yeah, I know. It’s nearly March already and I’m only now giving a think to my new years resolutions. I don’t do silly resolutions such as ‘lose weight’: something like that is too vague. Besides, I don’t even know how much I weigh

So here goes:

1. Learn to play the guitar. Everyone’s doing it these days — yeah, even my 2-year-old niece — so hopefully it’ll turn into a  jam session at some time. But I don’t want to stop at learning how to jam; I want to do math. I was half decent at it in school and I’m sure that I can kick arse if I apply myself a lot more.
2. Buy property. I’ve been saying this for the last 5 years but I think this is the year I’ll finally convince myself — I’m still not 100% convinced that it’s the cleverest thing to do — to buy.
3. Be more interesting. It can’t be too difficult, eh? But a great part of being interesting really means being interested [in the person you're talking to]. So it’s time to dust off How to win friends and influence people.
4. Explore. I’ll start with a trip to Parys.
5. Become a hell of a lot more self-aware. It’s difficult to do but this isn’t optional. I used to scoff at people who read The power of now. But that was back in the day and I now realise just how important it is to savour every moment.
6. Become big and strong. I’ve been to two boxing classes and I regularly go to yoga classes. I want to have strong legs and a flat tummy. One of the women at the boxing class has the hardest punches I’ve ever experienced. I wanna be like that.
7. Learn to construct flawless arguments. This means I need to argue more often. Not all the time, just more often.
8. Consume less sugar. It makes me hyper. Go figure. Sure, I could just go to the gym after work but that means I’d have to walk around our office block 3 or 4 times a day just to get rid of all that extra energy until I can get to the gym. Not on.
9. I’ll fill my days with more stuff to do. Cause the more you do, the more you can fit in every day.
10. I’m gonna [lay]buy experiences, not stuff. So I went to one of my favourite vintage stores at the weekend and I saw this awesome ‘Made in Italy’ leather briefcase. I’m not a lawyer [yet] but it’s an awesome bag. I wanted to lay-buy it until the end of next month. Problem is that I already have an awesome bag; I don’t need yet another one. So I’ll lay-buy myself some experience instead.
11. I want to make as many mistakes as possible so that I can learn from them while I’m still young. Then life will be so much easier when I hit my 30s and 40s.

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