Last year, I believe I made two resolutions and posted them here on this blog:
Listening to my iTunes Library all the way through
Not buying anything "brand new"
OK, so on the latter, we did pretty well. I don't have any numbers to crunch on it, and we did lapse a bit at Christmas once again, but throughout the rest of the year we pretty much stayed on target. I can't think of one CD or Book that I actually bought for myself brand new. I did acquire quite a bit of downloaded music and used CDs. But most everything - including this snazzy iMac on which I type - was bought used or refurbished.
So on the former, I did not succeed, but I did not fail. I started the year with some 9,000 or so tracks to listen to, but then I changed computers, and in the process of that, the play counts on every track in my library were wiped out, which left me with 14,000 tracks, all with zero play count. So I started over, and got that number down to around 5,000 by 12/31. Technically, that means I did listen to at least 9,000 tracks, just not the list I had originally identified. So by special dispensation (by me to me), I have carried that goal over to 2009.
As for a new goal - here goes:
I would like to discipline myself to write one new song each month of 2009. That's it.