Sunday, December 21, 2008

New Years Resolution came early

Hello, and welcome to the new incarnation of my blog. . . now titled "Better living through data".

I plan to start the year tracking a number of different data points in my life, to help hold myself accountable to improvement over time. I have recently (okay, long) found myself desiring to improve, and even starting down many paths. However, they all seem to end up in the same place, with nothing much accomplished.

My initial thoughts for tracking come from a couple sources, which I'll share after the new year. For now, I'll give you my initial list of points that grabbed my attention.
  • Time spent on certain activities (i.e. family, work, sleep, tv, etc)
  • Disc Golf Scores / Courses Played / Etc.
  • Mileage Milestones
  • Beer List (Beer's I've tried)
  • Travel Locations (level of granularity i.e. states, counties, etc TBD)
  • Weight / Food goals
  • Small Business progress ( www.highergroundgames.com )
This by no means complete, nor do I expect to find myself a year from now tracking each and every one of these... However, it's a start and it is now out there for you all to hold me accountable to. Please post in the comments if there's something else that I should be tracking that I've overlooked.