It’s a New Year, so it’s supposed to be time for our New Years Resolotuions, right?  Not this year.  This year I’m committing to 11 anti-resolutions inspired by Chris Guillebeau’s ‘A Brief Guide to World Domination‘ (and recycled in his book The Art of Non-Conformity.  He goes into more detail here.

After all, we all know what we should be doing, but how many of us think about what we SHOULDN’T do?

Here’s the list of 11 things I promise not to do in 2011:

11 Ways to be Unremarkably Average (in 2011)

1. Accept what people tell you at face value
2. Don’t question authority
3. Go to college because you’re supposed to, not because you want to learn something
4. Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England
5. Don’t try to learn another language; everyone else will eventually learn English
6. Think about starting your own business, but never do it
7. Think about writing a book, but never do it
8. Get the largest mortgage you qualify for and spend 30 years paying for it
9. Sit at a desk 40 hours a week for an average of 10 hours of productive work
10. Don’t stand out or draw attention to yourself
11. Jump through hoops. Check off boxes.