Reviewing my Goals for 2011
Being that it is the end of the year, I figured that I should see how I did on my 2011 goals. Like last year, I set a bunch of goals at the start of the year and then promptly forgot what they were. Because I’m awesome like that. So let’s see how I did on my neglected goals, shall we?
| 2011 Goals | Achieved(y/n) | Excuse |
| run a 2-hr half marathon | N | I ran the Scotiabank half marathon in 2:10:48, so I wasn’t even close to my goal of 2 hrs. My excuse – I was lazy about my training and thus have no one to blame but myself! |
| make $100,000 | N | I didn’t do much in the way of freelance work this year and the one course I taught at the Justice League paid less than the course I used to teach at UBC, so I think I will have made less in 2011 than I did in 2010. I failed at this goal in 2010 too, so at least I’m consistent! |
| reduce my remaining student loan debt in half | Y | I more than succeeded at this one! On January 1, 2011, I owed $39,467.71. By the end of the day on December 31, 2011, I’ll only have $10,797.43 left to pay. That means I’ll have brought my student loan debt by 73% of what I owed at the start of the year! |
| get my Credentialed Evaluator designation | Received on 30 December 2011! |
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| blog every day in 2011 | Not exactly, but… | …I did write 375 blog postings, which is equivalent to more than one per day. Plus, I still have four days left in 2011 in which to blog. So while I didn’t publish a posting on every day, I think I did pretty well on the quantity of blog postings fronts this year. |
So, there you have it. I failed in all but one two of my goals, but the one of the ones that I succeeded on was the most important one *and* I totally blew out of the water. Plus, I achieved something this year that I hadn’t even conceived of when I set up my 2011 goals, and it was so epic that it pretty much makes all other goals meaningless in comparison.
Next up, a posting about my goals for 2012!
Excellent work Dr. Beth. As for “wasn’t even close to my goal of 2 hrs”, I disagree. 2hrs = 120 minutes. Your time, 130.8 minutes. Difference = 10.8 minutes, or 9% of your goal. I would suggest that 9% is actually “close”.
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