Plans for 2010
martythemaniak: I wish they had derivatives with your plans as the underlying asset. I'd leverage myself, go short and make a killing.In other words OP, you'll fail and it'll happen because of your ridiculously ambitious goals. Let me break it down:1 and 2: If by "learn a language" you mean gain some proficiency in it and not just run through the introductory tutorial, then you're gonna have to spend a fair amount of time writing a reasonably big project. I would say, spread out, about 1hr a day every single day for each language, so that makes it about 2-3hrs/day.3. Unless you're already proficient in some instrument (preferably stringed), you're gonna need several hundred hours of solid practice to learn, so plan for about 2hrs a day,every single day.4. That would mean a serious workout, 3-4 times a week, so average that out to 0.5hrs a day, every single day.5. That's pretty vague, but I'll put you down for 0.5hrs a day averaged as well.6. that's too vague7. If you're speaking in the sense that Mathieu Ricard talks about, again you're looking at at least 1hr day.So in order to achieve your goals, you're looking at a commitment of about 8hrs/day. And that's 8hrs of hard work where you are pushing yourself, so unless you have nothing going on in your life and have amazing power of will, you will fail.You should instead pick 1 or 2 of those goals and follow up. Start working out and learn Clojure. You can manage that and a year from now you'll have 2 solid achievements behind your back, rather than 7 failures.