adanacs

Well it has been an interesting year. A lot of stress, joy, frustration, learning and success.

I've sold a small stake in a company, learned a lot about business politics and company ownership transition, started a corporation, hired and retired my first employee, run a sole-proprietorship, had my fourth child, learned a new programming language and web development framework, interviewed for (but didn't get) a J-O-B, designed a web app which I'm currently developing, cooked a turkey dinner or two, went fishing and camping, started this site, volunteered more with local groups, learned {git redmine drupal ubuntu 11.10 arduino, cloud hosting, heroku and more}, collected and learned about electronics and robotics equipment, visited family on the coast and more.

Overall it's been a satisfying year!

The lessons I can take from this year are:

• Don't undervalue yourself - remember to include all costs of providing your product/service in your price.
• Keep busy - you have less time to worry about the decisions you make and have to make.
• Take time for yourself, your family, friends and community - its what makes your life enjoyable.
• You are responsible for your life and can choose to be happy or not.
• Know when to change - don't keep what you are doing if it's not working for you.
• Stand up for yourself - the consequences are never as bad as others make them out to be.

I'm sure there are more lessons, but this seems to be enough for now. Goals for 2012?

• Get A Healthy Philosophy launched and making money.
• Decide on the fate of Okanagan Linux Solutions.
• Move to a new house.
• Dream up a few new ideas for webapps.

That's it for the year.

Dave