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2007 turned out to be a completely different year than I anticipated. While I don't consider New Year's Resolutions to be a straight-jacket of things to conform to for twelve months, they do offer a good way to look at the previous year and the coming year. Plus, I was asked to come up with resolutions for work as well. So, I figured I would combine them all in one place. Here's my resolutions for 2007.

Last Year's Resolutions

Continue to Find Paying Writing Work. Considering I was hoping to get more freelance work and ended up making it a full-time career, I consider this a massive success.

Get Back Into Fitness. I've had some ups and downs with this, but while I haven't done as well as I would hope with this, it is still something I'm working on, and I've been doing good about getting over the hump of my illnesses. Mixed success.

Moderate My Free Time. I had done well with this, but now my free time is going into my job (and I'm okay with that). Mixed success.

Make More Efforts To Be Social. My entire social structure has changed, at least regarding people that I can reasonably hang out with. As such, I'm absolving myself of this resolution.

Advertise More, Reveal Less. The need for this has actually increased significantly. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure this was a good resolution to have in the first place. I'm still thinking it over, but it has been a success.

Total: Success.

This Year's Resolutions

Learn As Much As I Can. I've been thinking over what I can do to help my job for the coming year, but the barrier I kept running into was that I didn't know enough to predict what I'll need to resolve. Then I realized that was exactly what I should resolve to do -- learn as much as I can.

Improve My Current Writing and Design Skills. There's a wealth of experience around the office, and I would be a fool not to take advantage of it and learn as much as I can, while being careful to make sure that I'm actually learning and not just aping what I see others doing.

Become A Better Manager. Most of what I do is basically management -- managing projects, managing freelancers and managing development interns. While I have some ad hoc experience in managing people, I haven't been consistently a manager for some time, so it's something I should actively work on.

Get To Know The People I Work With. A lot of what I do is connected to a lot of different aspects of White Wolf Publishing, and a fair percentage of CCP North America overall. I should continue to expand my connections with others in the company, and learn about them as people as well as their strengths and weaknesses as co-workers.

Play More Stuff Just To Play It. I tend to get saddled with running RPGs, and I tend to play stuff I'm working on. While it's good to see how your stuff works, that's still work. I need to play other stuff, not only to broaden my horizons, but to continually remind myself that I play these games for fun, too.

Read More Stuff Just To Read It. Similar to above, it's very easy to spend most of my reading time just reading things that are important for work. I have a stack of books that have nothing (or very little) to do with work that would like some loving, too.

Improve My Health. This covers not only the age-old "lose weight" resolution, but also continue to make improvements to my health overall. I think the Georgia climate agrees with my inner ear, so that's certainly a start.