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What's your 🎉New Year Resolutions🎉 ?

Sarthak Sharma on December 29, 2018

I know you all must be thinking, "Ugh... Not this again. These things never work!" But they can. Hear me out! Recently I was reading a great articl...

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Ankur Biswas • Dec 29 '18 • Edited

My new Year resolutions are:-

Read atleast 10 books.
Travel to 3 new places.
Contribute to atleast 5 open-source projects.
Learn atleast 3 new skills.
To take care of my health.

You can check out my resolutions board here

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 29 '18

You will be part of my 12 projects too, so consider third one done. 😁

Ankur Biswas • Dec 29 '18

😁👍🏻

Utkarsh Talwar • Dec 29 '18

Neat idea. Here are some of my resolutions:

Read at least one book a month.
Pick up at least 2 new skills.
Work out consistently and be healthier. (Hopefully I can avoid the self-inflicted injuries because of my clumsiness lmao)
Cut down distractions like Youtube and spend more time on productive things.
Consume less, create more.
Learn to say no to things more often.
Be kinder to everyone, including myself.
Start journaling and reflect more on my actions.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 29 '18

All the best man. I'm gonna help you in that distraction thing for sure.

Utkarsh Talwar • Dec 29 '18

Haha thanks I'm counting on it!

Michael Puckett • Dec 31 '19

I toyed around with some GameBoy/DS ROM hacking and realized a lot of my favorite stuff is really old now! I hope to work on more nostalgia-based projects.

Kaylyn • Dec 30 '18

My NYE resolutions for 2019 (regarding my career):

write at least one Dev or Medium article a month
attend more meet-ups
give back to coding bootcamps through mentorship and peer support
participate in the stackoverflow community
learn Python basics
master CSS grid
keep my github squares green!

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

All the best. Let me know if you want to collaborate in future 😊

Michael Puckett • Dec 31 '19

And here’s to hoping CSS Subgrid makes it into Chromium this year! 🥂

Derek Rosenzweig • Dec 29 '18 • Edited

If I get done any of my music projects this year I'll consider it a success. Mostly song cover videos, but I also have some original material that I've been wanting to finish for years and just never done.

Also want to learn a new programming language at some point. Maybe Rust or Go, but I'm also looking at getting back to a programming project I had an idea for years ago and started on (in a typical dumbass waterfall pattern way) but never went anywhere. So that might help determine any new languages based on the app's basic requirements. We'll see.

Utkarsh Talwar • Dec 29 '18 • Edited

All the best, Derek! Let us know if you start a Youtube/Soundcloud or something! Fellow singer-songwriter and musician here. :D

Derek Rosenzweig • Dec 29 '18

already got both, plus instagram! youtube.com/channel/UCaji_Q_V2Nc9L..., soundcloud.com/derek-rosenzweig-1, instagram.com/ozzyogkush

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 29 '18

That's great man, all the best. Let me know the idea, may be I can help. DM me @sarthology

Sandilya Bhamidipati • Dec 30 '18

After a lot of contemplation, I came to the following conclusion and want that to be my resolution for the new year. This year I became a father and if the one thing I want to teach my son is to respect everyone no matter their race color or gender. If I have to teach I have to practice and hence want to use 2019 to be a perfect gentleman.

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

Wow. All the best man.

Shubham Arora • Dec 30 '18

Will happy to answer this :)

My Aim is to keep my resolutions limited, so I will start with three resolutions:

 || 12 books a year

 ||  Generate at least two passive income sources

 || My third resolution is to take this thing seriously

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Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

All the best dude 😊

Vaibhav • Dec 30 '18

1.I resolve to be more aware of the technology and IT buzzwords cluttering our speech, and try to use English instead of jargon as much as possible. At the very least, to explain new jargon and acronyms when used.
2.Read more
Code even more....
3.2018 weight 85 kgs
2019 weight 74 kgs ...

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

Hope you achieve it all. All the Best Vaibhav.

Peter • Dec 29 '18

Just when I was thinking to use the upcoming weekend for contemplating the past year and planning the next, this post comes around the corner and yields some interesting ideas.

Such a github repo sounds quite useful to me. I think I'll try that, along with increasing my journaling frequency.

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 29 '18

😊 thanks Peter.

Jean-Michel Plourde • Dec 30 '18

Mines are:

Learn Python
Do more exercise
Better management of my studying time
Give more and elevate others more
Write a post on dev.to
Give a talk at the local tech meetup
Learn a 3rd speaking language (Russian, Spanish or Mandarin)

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

Awesome list, all the bests

Ben Halpern • Dec 29 '18

I'll have my answer by the end of the weekend.

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 29 '18

Waiting 😊

Ben Halpern • Dec 30 '18

Okay:

Take better care of my body/mind/eyes/ears/etc.
Get better at traveling (to conferences and elsewhere) without it disrupting my life too much
Learn to be good at hiring/interviewing
Learn Postgres in and out.

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

That’s great. I have few books to recommend for that.

Get better at traveling

Try Vagabonding.

Learn to be good at hiring/interviewing

Try Hard things about hard things. It has lots of good advices along with hiring and interviewing.

take better care of my bosy/mind/eyes/ears/etc

Try two books

Tools of titans
A short guide to long life (Just bought it)

Hope this will help. Thanks for building this great community. Will see you in next year with some more great posts and discussions. Happy New Year 🥳😊

ADONIS SIMO • Feb 9 '19 • Edited

Cool... I see resolutions more like goals than resolutions....

This gave me an idea, build a small app to define them(annual goals, resolutions) a define even a kind of plannig (dates only) to achieve them and the app will remind them during the year at time by mail for example... as you want to contribute on a project you can contribute on it :).

I am about to learn go, i can learn it by doing that small app.... What do you thing ?

Sarthak Sharma • Feb 10 '19

Yeah, Nice idea. I can handle the frontend in Javascript.

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 29 '18

Seems like you are distracted by technology. Also, Anything can be achieved if try hard. Check this column out, I have written many articles just to help people get rid of their Digital Addiction and be more productive. 😊
Hope this will help. All the best.

Hui (Henry) Chen • Dec 30 '18

Completing all reservation from 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014… :)

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 30 '18

Do you mean Resolutions ?!

Hui (Henry) Chen • Jan 3 '19

Yeah 🤣, my bad.

Prince-Alarming • Oct 22 '19

I don't make New Year's resolutions anymore. I got tired of making them and them always falling through or the resolution didn't work out or something along those lines. I just got to the point of why make them and stopped.

Enrique Moreno Tent • Jan 12 '19

My new year resolutions is:

never touching PHP again