1. Research the best roller coaster rides and visit a theme park.
2. Proof read more thoroughly. Don’t send important emails when drunk or angry.
3. Try a fish pedicure.
4. Make a renewed effort to settle eight-month £11 dispute with eBay.
5. Visit a new place at least monthly.
6. Dramatically reduce time and money spent in Ku Bar. Open tabs only in exceptional circumstances (rather than daily). Particularl spend less time there alone.
7. Cancel bicycle insurance and instead self-insure.
8. Join The Conservative Party.
9. Take all of your holiday allowances and make better use of time off.
10. Remember you’re only in your mid-twenties and that things could be much worse. Refer to some of your close friends and family for examples.
11. Get wristwatch serviced / regulated to stop it losing ever greater amounts of
time each day. You haven’t time to waste.
12. Redesign blog / website. Write blogs more often.
13. Learn to tie a bow tie and wear one once in a while. They’re cool.
14. Go swimming in the sea, perhaps off the Gower peninsula.
15. Spend less time faffing on Facebook.
16. Don’t lose any towels in the work showering / locker room this year.
17. Cook more often. Don’t go without a Sunday Roast dinner.
18. Complete a challenging Suduko at least once a day.
19. Do not renew gym membership. Approximate cost per visit this year was £58.67 because I went so few times for my annual fee. Pay as you go gyms only from now on.
20. Without being too impassive, try not to get so dejected by rejection.
21. Completely replace sock collection with easy-to-pair socks.
22. Get eyes tested, invest in new spectacles.
23. Acquire mild tranquiliser tablets and take one at least 30 minutes before calling any call centres. If phoning Barclays, make sure aspirin is close to hand in case of anger-induced heart attack during call.
24. Return the 20+ yellow highlighters you inadvertently pilfered from work in 2010. Stop putting highlighters in your jacket pockets.
25. Introduce yourself to immediate neighbours to establish which ones are employed. Befriend those who aren’t with a view to asking them to accept parcel deliveries.
26. Stop bemoaning your bad luck.
27. Invest in digital weighing scales. Avoid becoming obsessed with weighing though.
28. Endeavour to regulate sleeping pattern during the week. Consult a specialist if necessary.
29. Regularly audit food stocks, disposing of all but frequently consumed
items. Start with throwing away the fish sauce.
30. Cancel monthly Spotify premium subscription; invest instead in an iPod and begin investing in music collection. Action this by March.
31. Don’t work on Saturdays.
32. Increase spending on new clothes. Buy lots of new ties since they please you. Assess and clear out clothes not worn in 12 months.
33. Consciously improve seated posture as per physiotherapist’s advice. Stop using laptops in bed.
34. Stop feigning racism. Really mean it. Not really…
35. Buy a new alarm clock – one which is guaranteed to wake you and which doesn’t have a snooze button. Develop idea for an alarm clock app. which only stop bleeping after the completion of an ‘awakeness’ test; e.g. ‘solve the following equation’ or ‘re-arrange the following letters into a word’ before the bleeping stops.
36. Polish your shoes regularly or better still, finally find someone to do this.
37. Snack less frequently and more healthily. Eat less Pringles and Snickers, drink less Coca-Cola. Stop taking [so much] sugar in tea.
38. Be less abrupt / belligerent when writing work e-mails.
39. Re-read “How to Deal with People You Can’t Stand”.
40. Donate 1.6% of gross income to charity. Make sure to claim tax relief. Vive la Grande Société.
41. Start unsubscribing / blocking emails where you’re clearly on a marketing list in an effort to reduce time wasted checking emails.
42. Invest in the following DVD box-sets: The West Wing, Blackadder and (New) Doctor Who Series 1-5.
43. Be less critical – especially of the Irish.
44. Don’t get angry with people whose opinions diverge from your own.
45. Learn to roller-blade. Consider feasibility of commuting via roller-blading or push-scooter.
46. Spend less time worrying about other people’s problems.
47. Invest in some sort of self-help book for serial monogamists. Time to stop being
so bad at this dating malarkey.
48. Go to three Village Drinks events but don’t get stupidly drunk while there.
49. Embrace Cloud computing – transfer all important digital documents to a cloud storage service.
50. As always, be yourself. Be happy. Enjoy 2011.