Goals For 2011
While searching my blog for something the other day, I came across this posting: Goals For 2010. I set goals for 2010? Who knew? Not me apparently, as I totally forgotten about it. Of course, my first thought was: how did I do on achieving those forgotten about goals?
| 2010 Goal |
Achieved (y/n) |
Excuse |
| Get more sleep | No | Who has time to sleep? |
| Tackle 40 of the things in my 101 list of things to do | No | At the end of 2009, I had completed 18 items. As of Dec 31, 2010, I’d done 23. Sadly, 5 is not 40. However, I did complete 1 item yesterday (Polar Bear Swim) and am currently in the middle of completing 11 other ones. Still not even close to 40. |
| Reattempt the 100 pushups/200 situps/200 squats program | No | But I did get the 100 pushups app for my iPhone! |
| Get back to running | Yes! | An 8 km and two half marathons! w00t! |
| Do a 30-day yoga challenge. | Yes! | |
| Focus on fruits and veg. | Sort of | I could do more of this |
| Lose 15 lbs. | No, but… | I did lose about 5 lbs, plus I got more toned, so I *look* like I’ve lost more weight. |
| Do a great purge! | Yes, but… | The unexpected move in Feb 2010 did result in many things going to the thrift store/into the garbage, but I still have a lot of stuff I need to sort through and get rid of |
| Hit a net worth of $0. | Yes | |
| Make $100,000. | Sadly, no. | |
| Invest 10% of my earnings. | Yes | Just did some quick number crunching and it turns out I’m investing ~15% of my gross income. Wow, I had no idea! |
| Blog every day | No, but.. | While I didn’t blog every single day, I did post 344 blog postings, so that’s not too shabby! |
So now the question is, what should my goals for 2011 be?
I’ve been telling everyone that my new year’s resolution is to find a rich husband. In the absence of that, however, I think my 2011 goals will be:
- run a 2-hr half marathon – I achieved a personal best of 2:07 in the Victoria half-marathon in October, so I feel like a sub-2 hr half marathon is now within reach. Alicia and I are planning to do the BMO Vancouver half marathon in May and training starts this week! w00t!
- make $100,000 – My salary still isn’t anywhere near $100K, but I’m optimistic that I can pick up some teaching and contracts to supplement my income. Even though I totally didn’t do that last year – I had only one course to teach and my contract work was minimal.
- reduce my remaining student loan debt in half – I have just cracked the $40K mark and insane as it sounds, I want to have it down to $20K by the end of 2011. Which means I better get creative with making some extra cash!
- get my Credentialed Evaluator designation – the Canadian Evaluation Society now offers a C.E. designation to qualified evaluators. This year I’m going to apply for it, because “C.E.” would look great after my name, don’t you think?
- blog every day in 2011 – of course!
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