2016 was an absolute whirlwind of a year for me. Over the past 12 months, I have … Began flight lessons at San Carlos, CA airport in the Bay Area (SQL!) I got married to my wife, Jennifer Travelled internationally to Bali and London Left San Francisco for a new home New Orleans, driving the 1,600 or so miles from San Francisco to New Orleans in the sweltering heat of July Arrived in New Orleans to find our air conditioning was broken (doh!) Led five idea-stage businesses through a 12-week intensive accelerator (thanks Idea Village!) Adjusted to leading my company 2 time zones ahead and 1,500 miles away from my closest colleague Went into a partnership with 2 other real estate investors to invest in a residential real estate deal here in New Orleans …and I’m sure there was quite a bit more that I’m forgetting! With that in mind, I wanted to publicly state my new years resolution. Do less, but focus more on what I do Just the act of *reading* my bullet-point recap of 2016 makes my heart speed up a little bit. Guess that’s the introvert in me 😉 Here in 2017, I really want to reduce the amount of projects/moving parts that I’m involved in and put more energy into the projects that remain on my plate. My 2017 new years resolution: Engage in fewer things, focus more time/energy on the things I do. — Mike Krass (@mikekrass) January 3, 2017 This realization hit me when I read a random Twitter users take on productivity. Instead of posting a story about ‘how to be insanely productive and destroy huge to-do lists’, I distinctly recall her update said “Instead of hacking my productivity, I want to reduce the number of things I have to do and focus only on the truly important ones” This idea really hit home for me. I’m taking her advice and sprinting with it into 2017. So … what do I want to focus on? I’d love to finish flight school and get my private pilots license before our annual family beach trip to Florida at the end of May. I want to bring 10 non-profit clients onto the MKG client roster, specifically to share the awesome opportunities of Google’s Grant program for non profits that gives away $120,000 – $480,000 in FREE resources to non profits every year but yet so few NPO’s actually apply and manage those resources (ahhhhhhhhh!!!!) by the end of the year. I want our real estate project to get off the ground and get all 4 houses we bought/fixed up rented by the end of March. Last but not least, I want to continue embedding myself in the New Orleans tech and startup scene. I want to find a BIG IDEA to work on outside of MKG, so bring me the best you have...