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So I have a few New Year’s resolutions. They’re the usual kind of things. Lose weight. Get fit. Eat right. Have more fun. Get more stuff done. That’s all kind of nebulous though, so to be specific:

Lose weight: I have a 38 inch waist. I want a 34 inch waist, which is probably a couple of stone.

Get fit: I want to complete the one hundred push-ups programme. I’ll be starting tomorrow and blogging my progress here.

I also want to start swimming one or two evenings a week. There’s a really good swimming pool on my way home, which should make it pretty easy to incorporate into my routine. I need to get some swimming trunks and, since I have really long hair, a decent swim cap. Goggles sound like a good idea, too. I’ll go shopping for this stuff next week, probably.

Eat right: I have a reasonably good diet most of the time. I want to eat breakfast every morning and prepare a lunch for the days I work rather than buying junk from the vending machine.

Have more fun: I haven’t been on holiday for years. I don’t want to spend too much money, but I’d like to take a long weekend off and go somewhere nice, either alone or with friends. I’ll continue to develop my guitar playing (being able to play decent barre chords by the end of 2009 will make me happy) and read more.

Get more stuff done: I want to start using Google Calendar and to do lists more to organise myself. I also want to keep up with paperwork better and utilise the filing system I already have set up more consistently.

So that’s the kind of stuff I’ll be aiming for in 2009. I made a lot of changes in my life last year, so there’s no need for me to do anything too dramatic now. If there’s one thing that 2008 taught me, it’s that small, incremental improvements are the best way of approaching this kind of stuff. I’m looking forward to 2009 (one more hour to go before it begins!). It’s really good to be able to be hopeful and confident about the future, which isn’t something I’ve been very good at before.