If you're tired, sleep. If you're awake, do something. I read that recently, I figure it's good advice. So I'm here at my office in the afterhours, working off a single cup of half-caff at a party earlier.
I'm working on my list of New Years resolutions. It's instinctual you know, to do this, every year, and it typically starts right about now. So here's part 1.
1) Spend less money. I've been in a cashflow crisis for the last couple months, and it's no fun. You remember the old addage "the more you make, the more you spend", well it's easy for a business to do that. Expense management is a new skill I will learn in 2010.
2) Time away every month. My wife still works part time as a nurse. Eventually she'd like to stay home. Really, she'd like to be working casual by this point, but we're not quite there yet. (I hired another employee instead) What I do have, is time. And in 2010, I'm going to start using it, for my family. A couple Fridays a month should do nicely.
3) Learn how to manage my team. I've got a team with a lot of raw talent, but I've not been guiding them. I basically hired them and turned them loose. This year, I need to learn how to set goals with them, motivate them, and then hold them accountable to their goals. I move at 100 miles per hour, but it's time to discover where the brakes are- I need to stop and manage occasionally.
4) I want to run- okay, this is an emotional knee jerk response. I'm still riding high off my recent finish of Born to Run by Chris McDougall. To say I'm inspired does not quite do it. Ultra marathons, probably not in my future, but work up to 5 miles a couple times a week, maybe.
5) Have friends over to our house semi-regularly. When Cara and I bought our house, we had a vision of using it for entertaining. It's a humble house, but it has a cool fire pit on the back patio, and a sunroom off the back of the house. We just haven't had people over much, and that bums me out. Time to use our house. Maybe a marshmallow roast in the near future. Don't be surprised if you get an invite.
More to come. I'd love it if you comment, and link to your blog with your resolutions. Cliche, I know, but still constructive.
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