The Berger Project

Doug has written a recent post with his goals (BHAG) for 2008. After reading these for a few weeks, I am compelled to do the same, though maybe not as extensive as his. I feel like 10 things in 1 year (or 9 months) is a good start. So, in no particular order:

1. Study for/take the GMAT. TBD if I want to go to B-school and when, but this is the first step.
2. Seriously consider buying an apartment when I get back from Germany
3. Push myself beyond my comfort zone as I move to a new brand/position with Unilever upon my return from Germany. It is very easy to relate to the Axe target.
4. Enjoy the summer. Get to the beach, my parent’s pool, concert, and more.
5. Learn a bit about coding. The basics/difference of/between PHP, ASP, CodeIgniter, AJAX, RubyOnRails, Java Script
6. Live healthier. Get back in shape, exercise more, east better.
7. Though slightly contrary to the point above, party/do more. I am young, living in Hamburg/NYC, there is no reason to be so boring (besides money). This doesn’t have to be drinking, it can be cultural events, museums, opera/ballet, live music (besides headline acts), reading, seeing independent movies
8. Go somewhere cool. A film festival, a web conference, ski somewhere out of the ordinary, travel to South America, get to TED or All Thing Digital (given my financial situation I expect that I can only do one of the above)
9. Expand my network – make use of technology and face to face opportunities to network with people. Utilize LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, my blog, Pounce, Flickr, and more.
10. …. – I am going to leave this one open-ended, if I don’t I feel like I am trapped in and can’t pick something else along the way.

Do you think I’m missing anything? Any that you would change or remove? I’m all ears.

Here is what I have been doing recently (among many other things), but these are worth/I’m able to blog about.

• Watched the Apple SDK/Enterprise announcement
  
• Watched the Steve Ballmer interview by Guy Kawasaki live from Mix in Vegas
• Followed the ExpressionEngine 2.0 developer preview, thanks to David’s Tweets
• Started (again) to Tweet and Pounce since people laugh at me for updating my status on Facebook
  
• Writing a blog post to follow this one, as well as taping some videos
• Doing my taxes
• Watched the recent Digg Townhall
• Upgraded Dabbledoo’s Google Hosted account to the new Gmail, and installed Better Gmail 2
• Thinking about strategy and what it mean/how to do it (see bullet 5)

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So they send me to Hamburg for six months, only to wind up back in NY/CT for a week.

Yup I’m a jet setter, in and out of London in a day. No big deal…