Geeky Resolutions

As we begin the first full week of 2010, I find myself thinking about resolutions.

Personally, I’ve never been much for making New Year’s resolutions. It’s not that I think I don’t need to change anything in my life; it’s more that flipping over a calendar page doesn’t really hold any associations of a “fresh start” or anything like that for me. I tend to take more of a view that if something is amiss in my life, I should take steps to change it as quickly as possible rather than waiting for January.

Regardless, many people do make resolutions, and while the stereotypical view is that such things are abandoned mere weeks into the new year, for many people it’s a serious, life changing thing. In a fit of curiosity this morning, though, I started looking around the web to see what sort of resolutions my fellow geeks were making this year, and I found some interesting ones. Perhaps they may inspire you to make some geeky resolutions of your own!

• [I] will try very hard to make sure my kids spend at least as much time reading as they do playing video games, even if that means occasionally buying or borrowing cringe-worthy novelizations of High School Musical or something similar, because even reading something lousy is better than not reading. (From Wired‘s GeekDad blog post of 2010 resolutions, part 2; part one is here.)
• I resolve that I will not get all worked-up over upcoming television shows and movies. The disappointment is just too great. I still haven’t gotten over Firefly being canceled. (From TechRepublic‘s 2010 geek resolutions.)
• [Take] a little time every week to get my digital and tech life in order. That means cleaning out my inbox, closet, and cryptic Post It messages I wrote at 3 a.m. on Thursday and reminding myself to follow my own advice. (From GeekSugar’s guide to organizing your tech life in 2010.)
• Switch from Braaaaiinnnnsss to Diet Braaaaiinnnnsss. (The folks at ThinkGeek are always paying attention to the important things.)
• Adjust my physical form to more resemble Red Five (Luke Skywalker) than Red Six (Jek Porkins). (Geeks need to make the “lose weight” resolution, too, but we’ll use our own preferred phrasing for it. From another TechRepublic list.)
• Organize my files better…My documents, photos, music, etc. are all over my hard disk. (Me too. Ugh. From ForeverGeek.)

For those of you who are making genuine resolutions, there are plenty of geeky ways to help yourself stay on top of them. Lifehacker has posted some good ideas as well as links to free tools that can make achieving your goal easier or just help keep you accountable.

What are some of your geeky goals for 2010 (whether humorous or serious) and how do you plan to make sure you accomplish them?