Rich Geib's New Year's Resolutions 2019

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."
Hal Borland

New Year's Resolutions for 2019

"Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now."
Mattie Stepanek

YEAR OF 2019

"Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be."
Joel Osteen

Rich Geib's 2019 New Year's Resolutions!

What should I do? Where to go? How to live?

Keep up the intense reading.

Last year was a total success: keep this up. "Turn off your smartphone and read one more book per week." Amen!

STATUS: A success, but I am tiring. Refine the reading and focus. Less can be more.

Use the expensive rowing machine that you own and is in your house!

Rediscover your music playlists, get the adrenaline flowing again, and start seriously sweating in at home workouts.

STATUS: Failure. Working out as a practice is for the athletic club. But you can do some HIIT at home. Kettle bells, too?

Compete against better tennis players, and lose to them.

But get better yourself in the process, and learn what it takes to win at that level.

STATUS: Success. Maybe a little hard on the ego, but this happened. Still, I don't feel much joy in this after so much work. I know where my level is. But still I am beating players I did not beat five years ago -- quality players. But I will not get any better. This is it. Biology and age and technique have conspired to allow me to find my competive level. This should be a hard-won triumph. Why do I feel sad about this?
Julia workouts: she is growing up, so help her take it to the next level.

HIIT, spin classes; and "Boogie Nights Summer Run Series" 5km Wednesday evenings with Mary J. and her daughter.

STATUS: Failure. You surely did your part in getting daughters on club soccer teams -- researchng the tryouts and then paying for it all, and driving all over God's green earth to soccer games -- but it was outsourced. Others adults directed it all. Maybe that is the better way. Who knows?
Do a ride-along with Ventura Police Department.

Ask those handful of questions only they can answer; regular practice and Florida license.

STATUS: Didn't do it. Kinda glad. I know enough, and I don't think I want to know more. Ignorance is bliss when to every hammer everything is a nail..
Chromebook

Assimilate the new chromebook into the smartphone, tablet, chromebook, and desktop computer lineup, from light to heavy computing needs. Buy an external monitor?

STATUS: Success! A triumph, albeit a relatively minor one.
Make a will.

Just do it finally.

STATUS: Failure. Get on this, Richard!

Here is the reading lineup at this time:

"The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy," by Ann Rule
- DID READ (By the time I finished this LONG book, I wanted to execute the weasely Ted Bundy myself!)
"The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism," by Yuva Levin

DID NOT READ

"Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," by Charles Murray
- DID NOT READ
"Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal," by Jonathan Green
- DID READ
"Lincoln in the Bardo," by George Saunders
- DID READ
"The Beautiful Brain: An Audible Original," by Hana Walker-Brown
- DID READ
"Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery, by Scott Kelly
- DID READ
"Cape Fear (aka The Executioners)," by John D. MacDonald
- DID READ
"Chase Darkness with Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders," by Billy Jensen
- DID READ
"The Whites: A Novel," by Richard Price
- DID READ
"How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy," by Jenny Odell
- DID READ
"Born to Run," by Bruce Springsteen
- DID READ
"Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now," by Gordon Livingston
- DID READ
"Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging," by Sebastian Junger
- DID READ
"Alien III: An Audible Original Drama," by William Gibson
- DID READ
"#DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life," by Jedediah Bila
- DID READ
"Les Miserables," by Victor Hugo
- DID READ
"The 3-Day Effect," by Florence Williams
- DID READ
"Evil Has a Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation," by Paul Holes, Jim Clemente, and Peter McDonnell
- DID READ
"Ego Is the Enemy," by Ryan Holiday
- DID READ
"Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose," by Joe Biden
- DID READ THIS BORING, SELF-SERVING BOOK!
"Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit View," by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
- DID READ
"Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion," by Emile Coué
- DID READ
"Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood," by Lisa Damour
- DID READ
"Mala," by Melinda Lopez
- DID READ
"Never Split the Difference," by Chris Voss
- DID READ
"The Last Days of August," by Jon Ronson
- DID READ
"Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door," by Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly, Hurst Laviana
- DID READ
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri," by James Michener
- DID READ
"Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America," by Chris Arnade
- DID READ
"The Book Thief," by Markus Zusak
- DID READ
"Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style," by Benjamin Dreyer
- DID READ
"Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation," by Jim Clemente, Peter Clemente, and Peter McDonnell
- DID READ
"Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World," by Cal Newport
- DID READ
"The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph," by Ryan Holiday
- DID READ
"Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood," by Drew Magary
- DID READ
"Hindsight: Coming of Age on the Streets of Hollywood," by Sheryl Recinos
- DID READ
"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage," by Alfred Lansing
- DID READ