Things To Resolve In 2012
Friday, January 6th, 2012  —  Comments

First, a brief look back on my resolutions from last year and what I managed to get done.

  • Contribute to a Charity
    100% – Name of the charity is not important. Did I give as much as I would have liked to? No. But still, it’s a good start.
  • Participate in Volunteer Work
    0% – A lack of effort on my part prevents me from accomplishing this. Totally my fault.
  • Give Blood… Again
    110% – Proud of my accomplishments here. One caveat. Once the blood center has your name. They will harass you. I know people really need blood and that I may be in that situation someday, so I really don’t have a problem with it, but it can get annoying to the average person. Ah, I also gave platelets. Hope I helped someone.
  • Redesign Website
    100% – Done and done. You like?
  • Blog More
    0% – Fail. Probably blogged as much in 2011 as I did in 2010, which isn’t a lot.
  • Get Out of Debt
    0% – This one was a huge longshot, but I put it there anyway, just to keep me focused on my goal.
  • Get Back into Music
    10% – Been trying to brush up on my guitar skills, mostly working on scales. Not really happy with my progress here.
  • Publish my Windows Phone 7 Application
    100% – My first mobile application, Study The Word, is submitted an currently awaiting approval. This was something done over the course of a year, while contributing a few hours a week. Nothing groundbreaking, but hopefully it will be a good start. Once approve I’ll post the offical marketplace url here, but for now, visit my application site page.
  • Develop an Android Application
    0% – As my aforementioned bullet points states. I was only able to contribute a few hours a week to the WP7 application. As for Android, just wasn’t enough time. Fail.

All in all, I believe I made good progress in 2011, as far as resolutions go. So what could I accomplish in 2012?

  • Evade Pending Doom
    Who believes in this 2012 Doomsday stuff anyway?
  • Iterate. Iterate. Iterate. Port.
    Now that my app is finally out there, I want to iterate like a mad-man. I have a slew of features and upgrades already in the pipeline. At some point, I want to port to various platforms. Who knows where I will go with this?
  • Blog With A Purpose
    Last year I simply stated that I want to blog more. I’m going to take that one step further and say blog with a purpose. Meaning, there are so many things I come across in the course of a year. I’m going to make a effort to at least give enough time to write about the really cool things. Or at least post a video here, an image there. I also want to make an effort to post on more programming/developer oriented topics. I kinda shun away from this now, but if something helps me, I know there is potential value for someone else. Hopefully I’ll keep you posted on this one, literally.
  • 20,000 Xbox Live Gamerscore
    Now my score is laughable at best. Gotta get my weight up.
  • Shave Off Debt
    To only have utilities, student loans, and mortgage would be a dream. Let’s get it.
  • Visit Another Country
    Sad to say, I haven’t been outside of this country. Japan I’m looking at you.
  • The Wall of Gaming Shame
    Hoping to up my gaming cred, by completing the following games that I’ve started and not finished, or simply have not played, most of which are 2011 blockbusters.
    • Portal
    • Portal 2
    • Batman Arkham Asylum
    • Batman Arkham City
    • Bastion
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
    • Rayman Origins
    • El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
    • Catherine
    • Deus Ex: Human Revolution
    • Shadows of the Damned
    • Dark Souls
  • Family
    I’m all about my family. I want to continue to do what’s best for them and pray for peace in the home. Although this is last on my list, it is in no way least.
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  • JustinP8

    Hey, my friend, that’s a lofty list of goals! May I suggest you prune it down to 3? I have no idea how you’d accomplish ALL of that, you’re almost setting yourself up for more failure than gain!

    That being said, I haven’t set any resolutions this year at all. I think I had some last year, and I think I achieved about half as well. This is a problem I struggle with, picking good, measurable goals and then sticking with them. It’s all too easy to get distracted and start/quit projects all willy nilly!

    Also, I used to try to set gaming related goals, but that turned out to be dumb for me. As I get older, and have more responsibility, two kids like you, I realize that I’m wasting some of my best hours playing games. I think Scott Hanselman said something on This Developer’s Life that really clicked with me not to long ago. He was talking about one of the Batman Arkham games that he has unopened. He heard it was great, but he’s found himself realizing that when he’s playing them…he’s putting effort into someone else’s dream. In other words, he’s taking away time from his goals to indulge in the output of someone else’s. Or that’s what I took from it, but…on the flip side, that’s why we have our own goals, right? So someone else can enjoy the fruits of our labor?

    I think I’d like to try my hand at blogging, but I really don’t have much of value to blog about. I think it’s cool you’ve taken the time to set one up. More than I’ve done!

    I’m rambling now, exactly why I can’t be trusted with the keys to my own blog! :) Good luck on your goals, but you really should consider paring them down. Also, you should consider making them easy to track in some way, with some kind of metric.

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  • http://www.iamclarence.com Clarence Brown

    Thanks for the feedback bro. I do realize I probably have way more than I can accomplish. But it’s more so of me setting the bar high, and doing my best to achieve them. Sorta like you can never achieve perfection.

    In any case, I like to push myself.

    Yeah, I see what you mean by the games thing as you get older. And trust me, there a lot of them that I’m gonna just let pass by. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten away from playing what everyone says is great, and tend to stick more to what I like.

    No matter how great someone say’s a game is, if I don’t like it, I won’t play it.

    Thanks for putting me on to “This Developer’s Life”. I think my favorite episode so far (I tried to look listen to the entire back log) is “Fired”. I love it. Although I have never really been fired, I sorta felt that way after the whole fiasco when I left Bigby and was going to Deloitte. Every developer should listen to that show.

    Maybe you can join me in doing some programming posts or something. Heh, I think I’ll try anyway. I’m sure my little bit of knowledge can help someone.

  • JustinP8

    Oh man, I love TDL. I’ve also started sifting through Hanselminutes. Good commute material.

    Yeah, I don’t really play multiplayer anymore. I can never be available when others are playing.

    I tore Bastion up, 200 GS in like 2-3 weeks. For some reason I loved that game! Now I’m onto Skyrim. I’ve been an Elder Scrolls fan since Morrowind. I liked a lot of the lore and universe of Mass Effect, but there was just too much that didn’t gel with me in the game play I guess for me to stick with it.

    Anyway, I do need to start a blog. I’d like to get setup with a good ASP.NET host so I can eventually have a place to through up some project. Of course, I need to make some projects to throw up first!

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Hi, I'm Clarence. I am a software developer and technology enthusiast. I enjoy podcasting, technology journalism, website development and design, gaming, mobile app development, working out, and spending time with the family.

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