new year

It's easy, when making resolutions, to make too many. Or maybe that's the wrong way of looking at it. Maybe it's too hard to prioritize. Come to think of it, "Prioritization, that is your weakness," were words that came out of my boss's mouth during my annual review last month. So, here is a list of resolutions for 2018, some of which I will achieve and others of which are aspirational. And some of which I will not focus on and others that I will. For now, an undifferentiated list, which I will grow over the next couple of days and then sort into tiers:

• run under 20:00 for 5km
• learn to sing well enough to harmonize reliably with SRB
• learn three songs on the ukulele
• learn a three-card-trick routine well enough to perform it spontaneously
• complete the Coursera MOOC on guitar for beginners
• read 30 books, of which 15+ are by women and 10+ are by people of color
• make one domestic trip outside Islamabad per month
• rejoin the book club
• hire two people for my team at work
• travel to four new countries
• take the GRE
• be a better manager
• come up with a more useful way to say "better manager" than "better manager"
• complete the Khunjerab Pass 10K
• heal shoulder
• be more proactive about nurturing friendships old and new; more Skype calls to the States and more casual group activities in Pakistan