Random Observation/Comment #637: I feel the last two weeks are the most productive of the year. Productive towards enjoying life. There’s so much personal reflection and peace.
Why this List?
I didn’t realize that I have a lot of odd habits when it gets close to the end of the year. Some of these are backwards-looking. Some of these are forwards-looking. Some are just plain neurotic. Happy Holidays, everyone!
- Write a blogpost reflecting on the year – the tradition lives on!
- Read through older end of year reviews – a nice pat on the back for keeping up a great tradition
- Read through this past year’s seelemons blogposts
- Read through my past year of journal drawings
- Archive old Keep notes and try to clear them out to start with a clean slate
- Delete/Move files from My Downloads folder (this just gets pretty crazy)
- Uninstall applications on my laptop and phone that I don’t use anymore
- Review the goals and resolutions I set the year before
- Tally the amount of time spent watching TV or listening to podcasts – I should write a separate post on this alone
- Donate clothes and random things I didn’t wear for a year – I’m not one to be clingy to things
- Think of something I’m missing – this could be materialistic or super meta
- Go through my web of peeps – these are ~100 people I’d hang out with in my free time and try to send messages to during holidays or big events
- Send messages to these contacts and wishing them a happy holidays
- Write and mail holiday cards – great practice and tradition
- Look at pictures of Evie to see how much hair she’s grown
- Browse personal pictures from Jan the year before
- Erase my whiteboard (and usually rewrite some big items to tackle in some corner)
- Book tickets to shows or concerts for the next year (some of these act as presents) – I really want to do one broadway show, one comedian, one podcast live taping, and one sports game
- Look through my books and notice how little I read them anymore
- Take a multiple personal body measurements (it’s a thing to do)
- Watch the Google Year in Search video
- Walk through Central Park – this is usually a personal day drinking hot cocoa and listening to a podcast on a long walk
- Take off a work afternoon and walk through MOMA and/or MET
- Revisit my core setup with a fresh set of eyes –
- Review my productivity metrics – I should change these metrics all together
- Reorganize my web bookmarks
- Read and clear my saved Pocket articles
- Look through my old DSLR photos and Clear my SD cards
- Leave old slack channels or just unstar channels
- Make a food resolution – Eat more, Eat better, and Eat more better
~See Lemons Greet the New Year
