Resolutions – A New Year

While I still intend to keep up a kind of ‘to-do list’ of resolutions, I think I’m going to change the time of year that I decide them at. (I know, that sentence is teetering on the edge of ungrammatical. Live with it) So, rather than going for the entirely arbitrary – if traditional – January 1st, instead I’m going to go for the equally arbitrary (and in some ways more sensible) November 5th. Which also, conveniently, happens to be a personal anniversary, so it makes sense on that score too.

The resolutions I had for this year (i.e. 2006 in general) have worked out pretty well once I got my finger properly extracted, so I’m hoping that the same will be true for the new set. And also it’s the start of the five-year plan I’ve been looking at for a while, so there’s some stuff that’ll relate to that as well.

Anyway, the list for 2006/7 is going to be as follows…

• Photography
  1. Get a Macro Lens
  2. Get a Wide-Angle Lens
  3. Finish the Portfolio website
  4. Sell/Publish some stuff
  5. Join a local club
• Writing
  1. Finish at least one piece of writing
  2. When a piece is finished submit it to the right people
  3. Just see how things go
  4. Write more on d4d™? Maybe.
• Work / Websites
  1. Keep on going with Where’s Good
  2. Build and work on the other ideas I’ve got in my head
  3. Work (as always) on smaller sites, and do as many as possible
  4. Sort out permanent job for the first part of ’07 while we’re house-buying etc.
  5. Redesign d4d™? It’s about time…
• Education
  1. Sign up with Open University – initially for a refresher course, and work from there
  2. Look at an official course/qualification in Photography?
• Other
  1. Restart the Archery once we’ve moved
  2. Complete the move to Norfolk – first a rental, then the house-buying