Month: December 2008

2009 New Year’s Resolutions

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Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. – Benjamin Franklin

I was thinking about what my 2009 resolutions would be and I thought it would be smart to focus on what I’d like people to say about me at my funeral. This comes from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — the habit called “Begin with the end in mind.” If you are at the end of your life, looking back what would you like to have accomplished? What kind of person would you like to have been?

2008 was quite a year and knowing at least some of what 2009 will likely entail should make it a really interesting year as well (but hopefully much more positive).  At the start of 2008 everything was going great, mid 2008 about as good as it can get but then at the end of 2008 it fell apart.  I think most people only have one resolution but that isn’t really my style so below are my 2009 new year’s resolutions:

Health Resolutions

  • By the end of the year be able to do 100 consecutive push-ups.  I’ve been trying forever (still at 27).  🙂
  • Run a mile in under 6 minutes, thirty seconds.  My treadmill in the garage has been getting more use these days.
  • Remember to eat.  When I’m stressed I don’t eat, or at least not much.  My little brain gets wrapped up in what is going on around me and I either forget or don’t want to.  Yeah, not eating is probably not a good thing.
  • Eat at least one vegetable a day.  Last night I had broccoli.  It’s a start…

Relationship Resolutions

  • Spend more time with family and friends.  Remember to tell them how important they are and how much I appreciate them.
  • Be a good dad to Tyler and son to my parents.
  • Read at least one self improvement book a month.  Right now I’m reading The Marriage Fantasty which was loaned to me by a friend.  By the way the book isn’t saying marriage is a fantasy but rather people have unreasonable expectations about what marriage is and how to make it last.
  • Attend church every week (unless I am really sick or something like that of course)
  • Try to forgive and forget (might have to forget before I fully forgive…haha)

Career & Hobby Resolutions

  • For JeremyPerson.com I am at a 115 visitor daily average so I met my 2008 goal of 100.  For 2009 I’d love it if the traffic would double to at least 200.  Everyone likes to be heard and I am no exception.
  • Work hard, play hard, and remember what is important
  • Watch at least one movie a week.  These days I am lucky if I get one movie in a year.
  • Launch at least 3 new websites (I have lots of ideas)

Random

  • Make the bed every day (random I know)

Happy New Year’s everyone!

Random Pictures

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A few weeks ago I took Tyler and the two dogs for a 5 mile walk around our community (quite a feat) and took these pictures.  You have to love the golden hills of California.

Last of The Christmas Pictures

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Inspirational One Armed Basketball Player

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Found this really nice article today on the web about a basketball player who was born without most of his left arm and a girl/woman his same age who lost hers in a traffic accident.  To top it all off, his family is from Pleasanton, CA which is the same city I work in.   Hopefully everything works out well for them, it is a great story.  Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/

Prospect Provides Inspiration With What He Doesn’t Have

By ADAM HIMMELSBACH

FORK UNION, Va. — Kelli Whitescarver did not see traffic bottle up on Interstate 95 until it was too late. She lost control of her black Ford Explorer, which smashed a guardrail, flipped onto the driver’s side and dragged her left arm on the pavement.

Whitescarver, 21, had been on her way home to Richmond on Nov. 2 after visiting her sister in North Carolina. Instead, she was on her way to the hospital to have her left hand amputated.

During Whitescarver’s three-week stay at the Medical College of Virginia, she was told the amputation would not stop her from maintaining a normal life. But the people who told her that had two hands. Then, through some unusual serendipity, Whitescarver heard about someone who did not.

Kevin Laue, 18, was a 6-foot-10-inch college basketball prospect from California who was born with a left arm that ended at the elbow. He had recently enrolled at Fork Union Military Academy, about 50 miles from Richmond, in hopes of being noticed by an Ivy League team, but not for the reason he was most often noticed.

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

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May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

For Christmas, my mom and dad got me “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”.  Kevin Rose just Tweeted about the video above.

“In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This is a video clip of the exchange between Mr. Rogers and Senator Pastore, head of the hearing. Senator Pastore starts out very abrasive and by the time Mr. Rogers is done talking, Senator Pastore’s inner child has heard Mr. Rogers and agreed with him. Enjoy”