First of all, happy New Year to all of you – 2014 has started!
Every year I make at least one resolution, some I do for the public on my blog. The reason is simple – if I declare something in front of all of you, there is a good chance I will be held accountable to it. Without my readers, no one will check up on me and it will be easy to fall off the wagon. But this year I am making more than resolutions, I am making commitments to myself, and I want to follow them. In fact, I want to finish them in six months, not a whole year. A few of my 2014 commitments are professional, and some are in my personal life. I want to see how I progress over the year.
However, before I go to year 2014 resolutions, let us check how did I do with my SQL 2013’s resolution.
- Write more books – Done. I wrote total 10 books before the end of year 2013.
- Go beyond SQL – Done. I learned a lot about Big Data (wrote a series on it) and MySQL (build courses on it).
- Attend SQL training – Done. I learned that in Feb 2013.
- Reduce my weight – Failed. I gained a few pounds.
Well, I am disappointed that I failed in taking care of my health in 2013. Now in year 2014, I must focus on my health – there should not be any excuse. Without further ado here are my year 2014’s resolutions.
Reduce My Weight
I failed this last year so I must keep this one as a priority. This is a very difficult one for me personally. I travel a lot – internationally and domestic. I have a sweet tooth and I love anything sweet. I love fast food and we all know what this one does to people. Anyway, I am still going to reduce my weight in the year 2014. I am going to eat healthy and every day going to spend 30-45 minutes of exercise. My wife is going to come up with the plan so I will have someone always watching my progress. I did not want to talk about this any more as last year I failed with this goal. Let us talk about this next year.
Learn More on Big Data / NOSQL
I did a pretty good job in the year 2013 with this subject. I pretty much walked into my non-comfort zone and learned a lot about Big Data. I wrote a month long series on Big Data on this blog and did presentations as well on this topic. I feel I have overcome initial obstacles and I can now handle Big Data subject pretty easily. However, the subject of Big Data is indeed very wide and deep. I think there are lots of different things to learn from me and I have a long way to go before I even call myself a moderate expert on this subject. I am going to come up with one or two different series on NoSQL and Big Data in year 2014 and learn more about them.
More Video Training Courses
In year 2013 I have done 7 of Pluralsight video courses on various subjects. You can see the list over here. I am planning to do a minimum of 4 (one per quarter) video course for Pluralsight on various subjects. I like to do a mix of database and social media courses. I have built a list of the courses with me and I am hoping that I will be able to accomplish my goal for Video Courses in the year 2014. Trust me sharing the knowledge with the medium of video is very satisfying.
Well, that’s it. I have three simple goals and I hope that next year when I write this blog post, I have completed all of my goals.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. DAVE….. YOUR RESOLUTION IS REALLY ENCOURAGING….WE MUST HV A RESOLUTION TO FOLLOW IN THE NEW YEAR….. IT’S A VERY GOOD IDEA THAT ALWAYS SET A TARGET TO MOVE FORWARD…
Hi Pinal,
Thanks for your wishes and same to you. Try to reduce your weight and make healthy life.
You should get Wii Fit!
My wife bought me a fit bit, I find that this is useful to help me track how active I am during the day. I try and work some exercise into my day. So for instance instead of driving to the station, I walk there and that takes around 20 minutes each way, Plus the walking I have to do the other end. I also have the MyFitness App on my phone, it helps me keep track of how many calories I am consuming in a day. I have a sweet tooth as well and find this useful.