My 2008

I planned to review my 2008 resolutions in the last day of the year but wasn't motivated enough to do it. Rafi did it and motivated me as well.

So here are the things on my to-do-list for 2008 followed by my comment.


1. Send out three papers for publication--two from my dissertation and mine from my current work;

Done. One got rejection already and I haven't heard anything for the other two.

2. Make a decision about whether to have a child;

Done, sort of. I cannot say the answer is a definitely yes. But at least MM seems to be more on board now--he was much more resistant of the idea a year ago. After a year of discussion we learned the arguments from the other side more clearly. In fact nowadays I seems to be the hesitating one--the last time when I said "maybe not"(again), MM even told me "there isn't a perfect timing you just have to bite the bullet..." In addition we also started to keep track of my physical conditions on monthly basis.

3. Start to exercise routinely (one hour/day)--pick up Pilate and Yoga again;

Depends how one defines exercise. I didn't manage to allocate one hour a time to do serious exercise for the most of the year (I did attend once-a-week a Yoga class for three months). All I did was walking to work everyday (40 minutes round trip) and with my colleague at lunch time (another 45 minutes). But when it rains I skipped both, and I normally don't walk much during weekends :(

4. Read a book irrelevant of work every a couple of weeks and write reviews afterwards on this blog;

50% done. I only managed to write 12 book reviews on this blog last year, so that was one book a month on average, not the planned two/month. I did read many Chinese online novels for fun but never quite motivated to write a review. Another reason, which sounds more justifiable, is I had to read work-related books at my spare time as well.

5. Make a concrete plan for every month, every week and every day, then evaluate my progress at the end.

I definitely made weekly and monthly plans but daily plans were rare occasions. My dairy showed March 3rd was the last time I wrote down a detailed daily plan. I do make to-do-list but they obviously are not concrete enough.