Personal Goals for 2015

These are my personal goals for this year; some of the books on my reading list relate to various goals I have for my business but I’ve consolidated them here for completeness.

Fitness

• Cycle 500 miles
• Row 500 miles
• Reduce Body Fat (%) to 15%
• Increase lean muscle mass and strength¹
  • Be able to do at least 25 repetitions of a double-hand swing of a 24kg kettlebell
  • Be able to do at least 5 strict (deadhang) pull-ups

Learning

• Complete a code kata each week
• Read (or re-read) books already bought – see book list below
• Implement small side project using DCI techniques and blog about it
• Write at least 2 blog posts per month
• Learn to cook
• Improve photography techniques

Books

In no particular order, I want to read the following books which I already own.

• Fiction
  • 127 Hours
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Coming of the King
  • Deep Six
  • Fellowship of the Rings
  • Game of Thrones 1
  • Game of Thrones 2
  • Gorky Park
  • Jos Whedon Autobiography
  • Killzone Ascendancy
  • Life of Pi
  • The Broker
  • The Iliad
  • The Odyssey
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • The Woods
• Non-fiction
  • GOOS - (Feb/March/April)
  • Rspec Book - (May/June/July)
  • Understanding Computation - (Aug/Sept/Oct)
  • Copy Hackers books
  • Much Ado about Naught
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  • Think and Grow Rich
  • Reinventing Organisations
  • Successful Business Process Management
  • 4 Hour Chef ²
  • 4 Hour Work Week ²
  • Magic of Thinking Big ²
  • Power of Habit ²
  • Thinking Fast and Slow ²
  • Unlimited Power ²

Edit 25/6/2015: I’ve also ended up reading these books too

• Fiction
  • Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
  • The Secret Race
  • At Speed
  • Personal (Lee Child)
  • Never Go Back (Lee Child)
  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Steig Larsson)
  • The Girl Who Played With Fire (Steig Larsson)
  • The Girl Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Steig Larsson)
  • Merry Christmas Alex Cross (James Patterson)
  • Pop Goes The Weasel (James Patterson)
  • Neon Mirage (Max Allan Collins)
  • Stolen Away (Max Allan Collins)
  • True Detective (Max Allan Collins)
  • The Shadow Cartel
  • Ruthless
  • The Apocalyse Codex (Charles Stross)
  • Saturn's Children (Charles Stross)
  • The ocean at the end of the lane (Neil Gaiman)
  • On the steel Breeze (Alastair Reynolds)
  • A Dark Lure
• Non-fiction
  • The Brain Audit
  • The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms