After revisiting my goals from last year I believe each of these goals should be continuously strived for, so I think I will just re-post the same goals.
I intend to continue that ever-elusive pursuit of physical fitness. I have already purchased the new stationary bicycle, with all the bells and whistles and now begins the time to adhere to the exercise regiment. My thought on this endeavour and how it pertains to my political blog is as follows; if everyone were to take seriously the goal of becoming absolutely as fit as they could be, I believe the results of that would have a tremendous benefit to our health care dollars spent. People need to take a more proactive approach to their own physical well-being, they to work as a partner with their physicians rather than just a quaint relationship that involves visits and prescriptions. Anyways the amount of health care dollars being spent is definitely high on my list because I believe if enough people take the correct approach to this issue it could have the same results as if everyone combined takes little steps to improve our environment.
This leads into my next item on the list of things to strive for in the New Year. I would like to continue to improve my personal environmental footprint by limiting my need for fossil fuels, through more improvements to the house and just an over-all conscience effort to use less and save more. This again leads into my next item on the list.
I would like to focus more outside of my immediate control when it comes to the topic of sustainability and environmental conservation. Some of the ways I intend to achieve this goal is to do more within my community by posting water saving tips at our poster board at the community centre and going to more strata council meetings to insist this item remains a priority as a community. Another way I intend to have more of an influence outside of my immediate circle is to get more involved and more vocal at work when I see a continuously gross waste of materials and energy. This not only benefits my employer by reducing costs it also acts as advertising as the other employees will have to act in a more conscientious manor when dealing with consumption, maybe the odd person will take those same measures home and apply them there.
Next goal is to have an increased level of involvement when it comes to an on-line presence on the social networking sites. I have recently joined a "Face Book" group called "Save our Rivers Society" and they have meetings and discussion that I could have a greater involvement with. I am also a member of the "Make Poverty History" campaign, this is the group made famous by the lead singer Bono of U2, and I can get more active in that as well. Then there is that new "Face Book" group "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament", in one week the membership went to 100,000 people who joined and today just a week and half after it started, the membership will be over 150,000 people. The good thing about this group is that it has become a meeting place where people can stay informed about up and coming events and they can also share their thoughts and ideas for the betterment of our great country "Canada".
Education is my next goal, I intend to continue to progress in my pursuit of knowledge and keep my brain as active as possible. An important aspect of my life, which requires a constant and never ending improvement, is technology. With the way technology makes advances daily, I believe this will always be a priority with most people who want to keep up with the various aspects of technology. Specifically the different social net work sites require that I stay informed in order to fully utilize them as constructive tools. Another specific aspect of technology I want to learn more about is the various ways of my smart phone works and the numerous activities it can perform especially the capability to interface with my computer. One more evident aspect I would like to improve my education of is, writing and the correct use of grammar and sentence structure. The best way for me to do this is to continue reading and continue writing comments and posting to my blogs. "I may not be the most intelligent person I know, however that does not prevent me from striving for that intelligence."(Me)
Another goal I think I need to make an effort to improve is reading, I intend to get more involved with a book club or a suggested reading list, there are many to choose from and I'm sure that I could probably pick a different club or list every month if I wanted to.
Continue to increase the number of posts to my blogs and to stay active with my comments on other blog sites, this is quite self-explanatory and was on my last year list of goals as well.
Be more charitable A) with my time and B) with my money. Again self-explanatory, I think the world would be a much better place if everyone donated a bit of time to volunteer his or her time to a charitable organization, and as for money I always feel I can do more then I presently do.
I also want to strive to be more patient with other people and make a more conscious effort to see things from the other persons point of view.
The last goal is to take the time to pursue my interest and hobbies more often and share in those hobbies with family and friends more often.
