New Year's Resolutions for 2012

vCole

I know we're 16 days away from New Year's Eve, but what is everyone's New Year's Resolution(s)?

Mine are:

Finish MCITP:EA (Taking 1 of the 3 remaining exams this month)
Get healthy. (Not just lose weight, but over all health - mentally and physically!)
Pay down debt (Already started this!)
Pickup a new hobby
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shodown

Not to spend 600 bucks on a 3750 and instead buy "holiday: cards, put in 20 bucks inside them and hand them out to the people I encounter at Starbucks, the liquor store, the grocerty store and the few places I eat every day.

demonfurbie

finish wgu

start cissp

dave330i

Pass VCP5, 70-432, VCAP-DCA and $100k/yr.

rsutton

Complete the next test in my MCITP: EMA series.
Lose another 20 lbs. (went from 275 to 200 currently).
Save more.

Bl8ckr0uter

Professional:
Learn
Get CCNP, CCNP:S and OSCP plus start CCIE:S (finish the written) (and possibly do the CWNA/CWSP if my job wants me to, which I think they might thanks to a conversation I had today)
Finish my AAS w/ a 3.5
Go to a con (probably derbycon or ohio linux feast)

Personal:
Learn
Join my local priority board
Get healthy
Start Wrestling or Tang Soo Do again
Read more
Ham Radio?

MAC_Addy

Study, read lots of books.
Pass CCNA (ICND1+2) I'm ready to take ICND1 but I don't have any time before Christmas.
Study and take CCNA:Sec
Study for CCNP (going to do switch, routing and tshoot order)
Get married (already booked our wedding and honeymoon).

Lose 20lbs. This can easily be done. I've just been extremely lazy lately.
Get a bike and ride a lot more - I used to do a lot of downhill biking.
Learn to fly an RC helicopter - I already fly planes and drive cars/trucks.
Attend my future wife's university graduation - she graduates in December next year, she doesn't want to go, but I'm making her.

veritas_libertas

1. Exercise: The IT flab is beginning to be noticeable

2. Finish WGU by the end of 2012.
3. Decide what I want to do when I graduate.

earweed

Uuuuuhhhh!!!!
I never keep them anyway, but I'll try some I can keep.

Don't make resolutions.
Don't break resolutions.

SteveO86

For 2012

Get back to the gym on a normal basis (At least 4 times a week again)
Disconnect from work a bit more and relax
Build my home CCIE lab
Get my CCDP and CCNP: Sec
Get my blog it's own domain instead of .wordpress.com
Publish blog posts back on a weekly basis

joneno

Shame on me, I learned how to swim this summer at age 26.

I want to keep improving my swimming skills and hopefully join a swimming club for competitions. I'm in love with water now. On the flip side, I need to stop procrastinating and finish MCITP:EA.

Anonymouse

In order of priority:

- be healthier, lose more weight (25 lbs lost in past 6 months after making some big lifestyle changes)
- cert up and get outta helpdesk

rogue2shadow

2012:

Setup new exercise routines
Set a strong foundation in my journey into red territory (infosec)
Get more involved in local charters and community groups in infosec
Start planning for my Masters in Cybersecurity.

nicklauscombs

2012 is the year of CCNP: Security and CCIE: Security written.

Mike-Mike

Finish up WGU, then look into Masters programs....

maybe be one of those people who joins a gym in January... bleah

N2IT

Go to the GYM more
Take more walks
Less IT and studying
Pass the PMP
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earweed

N2IT wrote: »

Go to the GYM more
Take more walks
Less IT and studying
Pass the PMP
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QHalo

2012 is the career focus and steering year.

VCP5 - class starts Jan 17th
VCA-DT, VCP-DT
CCA XA, XD
MCITP-SA/VA - if I can work it in

ptilsen

Finish MCITP:EA (January)
Start and finish CCNA
Start and finish SSCP or CASP
Start Bachelor's degree
Lose 15 more pounds, go to gym at least twice a week

TesseracT

Professional:
Sit the CCIE written and study for the lab for maybe 2013
Do awesome type things at work

Personal:
Spend more time with my girlfriend
continue losing weight (lost 60 pounds the last few years - can almost see that 6 pack hehe) We have a free gym at work so that's been helping. I wanna buy a juicer as well because I hate fruit/vegetables
ride my motorbike on some awesome mountain twisties
spend more time playing guitar
kick ass and take numbers

NOC-Ninja

Pass CCIE RS lab.
If i passed the RS lab then i will jump to CCNP security then CCIE Security. (build another home lab)

Get my purple belt at BJJ gracie barra!

wirerat

Pass CCDP
Start CCIE studies and pass the written
Save money for a down payment on a house
Pay off my car

ChrisRice

Study:
Pass Security + and 70-680
Finally do my CCNA
Graduate from my course and start working, then look at more certs

Personal:
Pass my driving test
Stop smoking
Start saving to put down on an apartment with the girlfriend

Priston

Move out of this temporary appartment

If The commute to work is longer after we move out of the appartment then
Find a new job
End if

Save up money so I can go back to college without a loan
get CCNA

bertieb

Work hard to get my new management responsibilities nailed down
VCP5
Get to grips with Dell Compellent
Do more mountain biking
Play more guitar

simonmoon

Live on a budget and save money.
Eat better and less.
Exercise more.
Manage my time better.
Be more organized.
Do better at keeping the house clean.
Get CCNA.
Find a job relevant to networking.

Tackle

Looks like I'm typical for this forum of IT professionals...

Lose some more weight. Lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks just by switching from pop-tarts to oatmeal for breakfast, and paying more attention to portion size.

Decide what cert I want next, then study/pass.

Get to the range at least twice every month to improve techniques/accuracy with the G17 and S&W Bodyguard. (Yay for the second amendment!)

Psoasman

Do as much at WGU as possible.
Loose another 20 pounds: lost 25 pounds in 6 weeks with the Smart for Life plan
Try to find time to exercise more - most of my exercise now is chasing 2 overly active boys

Pay off the last bit of debt.

lordy

#1 Quit my job and go self-employed
#2 Exercise more
#3 Get that CCNP finally
#4 Spend next years winter in the sun

cisco_ma

-Start exercising
-Lose weight (need to lose at least 30 lbs)
-Get CCNA
-Get MCITP:SA
-Get a Job!

powerfool

It is getting to be that time of the year, isn't it...

Well, some things that I need to do:

1. Health - I get going pretty well for a while and then something gets in the way... work, school, family, breaking a wrist... I need to find a routine that I can do and stick with regardless of life's surprises. Probably add more cardio as I typically ignore that. Maybe just start out doing a half hour of cardio in the mornings...

2. School - Finish up this MS in Cybersecurity Policy. This will require me to do Spring - Summer - Fall and not have a break. I have been feeling burned out, so I need to get ahead of the curve and not play catch up. Also, it would be great to get an A in these last three classes; they have essentially made it impossible to do, but I have been between 87-89 percent in each course... but they only do straight grades, no pluses or minuses. I want at leave a 3.5 GPA, which will be rather difficult.

3. Work - Promotion. It mostly rides on successfully moving through my current Exchange migration project. I need to make substantial progress on it and look for new business. That will give me an 8% pay bump on top of my merit raise and hopefully put me over the ever elusive Social Security cap for the first time in my life! That has always been one of my goals.

4. Family - Need to get us a vacation or something. Also, I vow to take the kids sledding if it snows, at least twice (we only sledded once last year). My real estate agent (I should say friend, I have known her for 12 years) invited us to her new half-time home outside of Orlando... so maybe I take the family down there and we go to Disney! Also need to get the kids involved in some activities, especially in the Summer. It could be a "two birds with one stone" situation, as well... a healthy activity for the whole, or most of the, family.

5. Certs - Uh, finish up my current list that will not be completed this year.... consider any potential Windows Server 8 certs that come up... and maybe study towards MCM Exchange 2010, but probably won't take it.

6. Survival/Self-sufficiency - I have been looking into onPoint Tactical and I want to try to do their Urban Escape and Evasion course and perhaps do the Wilderness Survival course with my wife (she was not interested in Urban E&E in the slightest... something about not wanting to go through a simulated kidnapping or water boarding...). I would also like to start a garden this year, and maybe do some canning. It might help on the health front and be a little more frugal.