What can you achieve in a year?

Mark Zukerberg is profiled on the BBC website today article here

The Facebook founder is clearly the sort of role model we're hoping our children can emulate. His business doesn't need to employ minimum wage workers, and ethical problems with privacy aside, he's built a credible new concept whilst still in his twenties.

But this article discusses something that every Power Parent needs to embrace.

So the ultra-important, ultra-busy boss sets himself targets for each year. Learning a new language that will impact on future business dealings. Catching and killing his food (and yes, this is serious!) Mark Zukerberg shows us that even someone as busy as himself can achieve extra-curricular dreams on a yearly basis.

What did you focus on last year? Perhaps you got a bit of DIY done, moved house, or sorted out the garden. You might have played a sport to a high level on a number of occasions, or worked hard for your PTA. It's December now, so let's make next year a real 'Zukerberg' of a year.

Things you could achieve in a year

• Create a website based on a hobby, interest, or your career, develop fifty web pages, and gain 50,000 page views
• Make an album. Seriously- download the free software package Acid Xpress from Sony then play with the loops, figure out how to record, buy a couple of cheap keyboards/ipad drum apps/a guitar, and make an album with your children. It won't be a top 40 success, you won't tour, you may not be able to play any instruments or even get any better, but base your ambition on the filmmaker John Carpenter. He not only directs films, he scores them as well. With the wealth of free software, some imagination, and a year of your spare time you may encourage your children into a new hobby, perhaps a life-long interest or career, but at the very least you'll show them that creativity isn't stifled by a lack of training.

• Make a film. Don't go overboard, if you don't have a ready-made genius plot, remake an 80s classic. Get the whole family involved, upload the film to Youtube, become an internet sensation- oh, and watch this first Son of Rambow (film)