New Year’s Resolutions 2011
Personal Goals:
- Climb rocks, do more Yoga, and ride my bike—aim to a combination of these several times weekly (ankle permitting of course).
- Complete the CrossFit Beginners Routine (12 week program, no crazy shit).
- Keep a food journal
- Complete levels 1 & 2 of the FSI Basic Spanish Course
- Read the following books:
- Enchridion by Epictetus
- A Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (Joe Sachs translation)
- Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics by St. Thomas
- Thomism and Aristotelianism by Harry Jaffa
- Travel abroad (Spain, Latin America, or Australia are the preferred destinations).
- Keep a food journal
- Take a photograph every day
Underlining themes:
It’s pretty basic, sound mind, sound body. Being hit by a truck last year put a serious damper on a budding return to healthy living. I still can’t run, and although I can walk, it is not without discomfort—especially in the morning and even more now in the cooler winter air. But as I maintain my optimism, I have a growing list of things that I took for granted and only begun to appreciate when it became painfully obvious that I may not be able to do certain activities ever again. I’ve held off the ones that are still too intangible as to merit consideration (::cough::surfing, hiking Mt. Whitney::cough::). But as I slowly begin to regain muscle strength, flexibility, and balance this year, I hope to see what my body is capable of doing.
As far a sound mind is concerned, the reading list speaks for itself. I have the moral philosophy and theology books listed that I have been meaning to read for a long time. In the case of The Ethics, I’ve read it before, but the three book sequence of The Ethics, Commentary on the Ethics, and the study of the commentary is a project that has been in the back of mind for a while.
I’m sure the list may be too big to complete, especially considering I have a professional list of new year’s resolutions also. But like the meaning of philosophy, it is the journey that is more important than the desination.
