A New Year’s resolution is a tradition, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their life at the start of a new year.
From Wikipedia’
Always Excited to Start
The moment of making plan has the natural magic to make us feel hopeful, excited and become better ourselves.
However, it is just a starting point.
Hard to Track and Achieve
I tried many years to make new year resolution and read countless tips about “How to avoid failure and keep the plan”.
It is a agile project to be iterated by each sprint.
I will use this article to record the whole “Project Progress” and track the achievements for every “Milestones” along the year.
The first version was made before 12:00pm on Dec.31st, full of ritual to welcome the new year.
My goals for this year
- More learning on German language and European culture
- Fulfill EMBA classes and contribute my know-how in community
- Find the New possibilities/direction for my career
I want to continue
- Improve oral and written English
- Regular Sports Activities
- Keep in touch with family and friends
- New Learning Summary
- long-term Relationship maintenance
I want to try
- Start to study ink painting
- Surf/Kite Surf(summer time in Portugal)
- Personal finance management(e.g. Stock)
- Decrease self-doubt and less interpret other people’s thinking subjectively
During special lock-down period in Germany, the first month of 2021 flies quickly. When I review the implementation status, it turns out far away from the track.
Then, the first iteration comes in THREE steps:
- Mark the status for each resolution items, and figure out the part hard to measure
- Break-down the action plan, specify to Execute Frequency, Acceptance Criteria and Due Date
- Set priorities into THREE levels : Important and Urgent, Long-term Accumulatio, Nice-to-have
Along the iteration progress, I realized it is too general tp track my first version new year resolution. Below are the selected comparation between “Before Iteration” and “After Iteration”.
Before Iteration
- More learning on German language
After Iteration
- Yearly Target: Pass German B1 certification
- March: Attend TUM German intensive class
- April: Pass TUM placement examination A2
- May-July: Attend TUM German Summer Semester class B1
- Aug- Nov: Prepare for the language examination
- Daily Life Topics Practice: Supermarket, Greetings, Introduction, Work etc.
Priority
- Important and Urgent
- More learning on European Culture
- By Activities: Visit Museum, Watch Opera/Cinema, Try-out FKK/Therme, City Tour
- By Life Experience: Explore Cafés/Restaurants/Cooking Receipts(e.g. Bavarian cuisine), Listen traditional Music/instruments
- By Media: Read Historical book, Watch Documentary/YouTube Channels
- Long-term Accumulation
- Surf/Kite Surf
- Plan one friend/couple trip to Portugal in summer time to learn Surf basic skills
- Nice-to-have
The iteration is still on-going, detailed break-down is maintained by Excel file, in which could easily track sub-tasks and timeline.
Besides the above method to update the plan, one 6-minute daily journal could be conducted at the same time: It includes 3 mins Morning Routine and 3 mins Evening Routine. I will use it as the monthly review input for Yearly Resolution.
See you in next iteration Date: The end of March, 2021