30 Jan 2012 04:03 AM
I'm going to set three goals for the first part of this year. Number one is starting to learn code. I work in a code environment and the world is largely built on it. Plus one of my friends said that once you start to learn code it forces you to think in a different way. If that wasn't reason enough, nothing is.

I'm going to give it a crack for a few months to see if I can get a handle on it.

The second goal will be some majorly overdue Excel study. I have the learning texts, I've paid for them and claimed them on tax. May as well actually use them. I use Excel all day, everyday in my job now, and my skills in it will be the deciding factor in me getting my next job (wherever that will be).

The third goal is fitness for football this year. I'm getting old and these next couple of years could be it in terms of me playing football. Time really does fly by and I didn't start playing again soon enough so now it's up to me to try to squeeze as much as possible out of the end of my playing days. To that end I hope to get in some yoga & pilates sessions and some extra fitness/football on top of indoor and training each week. Especially before the season starts proper around April.

After not Stickk-ing for while it's great to be back in the saddle once again.

4 Nov 2011 10:36 PM
So I don't know if I can do a Stickk goal for it. I could say I would spend X number of hours above my 38 on the projects at work, but I'm doing that and more now so Stickk won't help to force me to do it, as I'm already there.

What I need is an area of work that is really going to pay off, but its something I will find hard to make hours for. Just got to find that something....

4 Nov 2011 10:34 PM
iTunes (and now Amazon and hopefully soon Ovi store) are going to be my main focus till May next year. That's when we'll fin out if our company's division will still be around.

I have a unique opportunity to directly influence this and I think I'd be a fool not to take it. Plus we are going to launch apps and that is somewhere I would like to do work in anyway. This gives me the chance to be heavily involved in developing apps. It's too good an opportunity to miss.

Will it ultimately be the right decision? I can't say, and the safest bet would have been just to work normally and spend that extra time skilling up in Excel and doing some more stats study. But where's the fun in that? Plus it comes back to me not fully committing to one thing so I end up with a "what could of been" situation. I don't want that. Best to take an opportunity as it is presented to you and squeeze it for all its worth. Then if it doesn't go all to plan I can sit back and know that there was nothing more I could of done.

Plus that kind of proven dedication and proven ability to innovate and go beyond your prescribed job description can't really hurt my resume much either.....

9 Aug 2011 09:19 AM
HD in Stats 2. Woo-hoo!

Now I know I need to start learning Excel Macros (read VBA code) but I am so busy with iTunes at the moment. Need to really start updating my job search profiles at SEEK, LinkedIn and LinkMe. Could be looking for a job halfway through next year.

Need to make some sort of commitment here, but I don't know which way to go.

If I go with VBA and more advanced Excel stuff that's a good path, but I could also go with doing some the interesting stuff I've dreamed up for iTunes and Facebook and Twitter. Its less of a sure bet, but it takes me in some pretty cool directions and gives me a shot at allot more satisfying jobs.

Maybe I can do both.... Ah not enough time in the day as always...

3 Jun 2011 10:58 AM
Just smashed my exam today. At least it feels like I did. Now I have the next semester off I am going to pour some of that extra time into work. But that still doesn't mean I won't be using this time to knock off a few other pet projects that I have had on the back-burner because of job searchand study.

I'm thinking of like a laundry list of jobs and having a weekly stickk goal to tick one or more off it. Then I could have a one shot goal of having a minimum number done by the time my next study rolls around. I'll have to mull over it for the next week or so. Till then I have a pile of Feist books to read. Oh yeah!

30 May 2011 09:39 AM
I'll kick your nuts if you're not careful....

29 May 2011 08:54 PM
good luck with ur exams mate, keep kicking them goals!

29 May 2011 01:15 PM
Well its exam time next week and the culmination of all but one of my stickk goals from this semester. Its been another golden stickk period for me made extra shiny by the fact that i have finally got a new job in the field of statistics and I have started building a proper career.

After this exam I am taking the next semester off study to focus on work and trying to learn as much as I can in the shortest time possible. Many of my friends have a considerable head start in terms of their careers so its good incentive for to work hard to try to narrow that gap. I couldn't happier for them of course, but I reckon I can use my envy of them to help boost my own endeavours. I mean, why let good envy go to waste?

I'll be thinking about some stickk goals for this coming time off study to help me get a list of non-work jobs finally done and to motivate me to do a couple of career things as well. I'll just have to see how it all works out and what I can realistically do.

Until then though.. its exam time baby!

29 Mar 2011 06:33 AM
Uuummmm..... Well you could make a commitment to recording and writing, but I kind of don't see that as being one of the areas where you need much motivation.

If you do make some goals, make them open enough to incorporate lots of things that you can do towards the band.

As you don't really know yet what direction you'll take with it, or what the best course forward will be it would be silly to lock yourself into recording an EP, when maybe doing gigs turns out to be the best thing. Or vicea versa.

As I've said before any forward progress is good, and will benefit all aspects of your life, not just the band ones.

I would think an EP by the end of the year would be a good one-shot goal. But maybe make that an EP and/or something else just in case.

Hours spent on band stuff is a good weekly goal. Just leave yourself enough time to deal with the other shit around, and maybe try 5 weeks first and see what happens.

A number of things done each week would be good too. Maybe it would be 1 venue contacted/re-contact ed, and one record label contacted/re-contact ed. Do that for 5 weeks first and see what happens.

Its your Stickk world baby. Stickk dream as big as you can!

28 Mar 2011 04:19 AM
yeah good call. ill work on some goals this week, any ideas for some band ones?