Planning is one of the best ways in order to keep organize, in my opinion. It’s good to have a plan every now and then. I myself fill out my Outlook calendar every week and also have an annual calendar which I’m using in order to schedule for a year. Today I’m going to publish some of my schedules for the year 2009 to public.
Move my blogs to my website
As you may know, I have some blogs such as Yahoo 360 (which I’m using to publish my non-technical blogs). I decided to move all of them to my website.
Last year, I launched http://mmr.name as my website after I lost my previous (http://ramezanpour.net) in order to publish my technical articles and separated my personal and technical blogs. After a while, I realized that it’s possible to combine them.
I used .NETBlogEngine for my website and it satisfied me and now I think it can host even my personal blogs.
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Complete my self-studies
As I scheduled, I have to complete about 7 books until 2010. It’s not too easy for me because I spend about 60 hours of my life at work every week. According to my calculations, I must read up to 40 pages everyday in order to achieve my goal in studying.
The only thing I can do to achieve this is to plan in a right way.
The books have been bought and ready to read and I’ll start my reading from February 3rd (Right after my birthday).
Certifications
The year 2010 is a deadline for me so I have to take my IELTES till 2010. Also one of my IT certifications is going to expire in May, 2009 and I have to renew then whereas I must take some new certifications.
Reduce playing video games
It was about 3 years ago that I started playing games in a professional team. We were playing Counter-Strike in tournaments and more. Since I quitted playing Counter-Strike, I used to play some games in my free time. Every year I’m trying to reduce playing games and this year is something like before and I’m trying to develop some applications for free when I’m free. Maybe I want to start some open source applications and publish them in websites such as CodePlex, SourceForge, etc.
There are a lot to say about my planning for this year but I think, these were the most important.