Inbound Thinking

At the end of 2007 I wrote down and saved some New Year Resolutions. I figured I would share them, along with the outcome. I’ll share my 2009 resolutions in another post soon. Here are 2008’s resolutions in review:

Get a gym membership, GO!
It took until March, but I did finally get a gym membership. My attendance is not perfect but I try to go 2 days a week usually Saturday and Sunday. I think I satisfied this resolution.

Do some volunteer work
It was a busy year and this one slipped through the cracks. I still want to volunteer for a charity of some sort so this is going on my list for 2009. I live an awesome life and I want to help out those who are less fortunate.

Make some music, even if terrible
A definite success here. I managed to make a bunch of music in 2008. Not all of it was amazing but a couple of tracks were good enough to get released on record labels.

Watch less TV
I’m not sure about this one. I still watch TV every day, probably more than I should. I’m okay with it, but I intend to reduce TV time more in 2009, except for LOST, I have to watch lost. Maybe I can skip American Idol this year?

Read more books
I did not read as many books as I would have liked. I have a bunch lined up and always have trouble actually reading them. I do so much of my reading via blogs, magazines and websites that I have trouble getting to the books. When I used to have a commute I would listen to books on tape daily, I miss that (but not the commute).

Go on vacation outside the US
I never made it out of the country. I went to Las Vegas for a few days in March but that was it. Not a great year for travel anyway, fuel prices made tickets expensive and the airlines tried to squeeze every last penny out of passengers. I’m okay with my lack of travel, I still had a lot of fun right here in Boston.

Continue DJing – do not put gear into storage again!
Another big success in 2008. I managed to DJ throughout the year playing almost monthly at RISE and a few other gigs at Felt and Green Room. I also played a lot at my friend’s apartments. My own DJ gear is not in storage but I don’t use it as much as I should.

Learn to fly?
This was not a “real” resolution (hence the question mark) but I still want to do this. Now that my roommate is a helicopter pilot I want to learn to fly even more.

Skydive?
I didn’t do it in 2008. I think this will go along with learning to fly, if I’m going to be up there I better be familiar with bailing out. Or maybe I can talk some of my friends into joining me for some skydiving in 2009?