I know that one makes new goals on New year’s day but, for me, that only insured that I didn’t spend any amount of time actually thing about what I wanted to accomplish in that year and, worse, not following through. Last year at the end of July I wrote out a large list of goals. I gave myself a year to accomplish some of them, others I gave myself more time (five or ten years.) That year recently came to an end and I wrote about how I did here (the short version: pretty darn well.) I spent the last 2 weeks thinking about what I wanted to do this year and why, any time an idea came to me I jotted it down and then went back to whatever I was doing, after it was all over I had quite the list. I then sat down and reviewed them, using a few criteria: why did I want to do this? Could it realistically be accomplished in a year? Is this something that should be broken down into multiple goals? Does this make me a better/more interesting/smarter person? With the criteria I whittled it down to a list that I felt was workable for the year and wit my multi-year goals.
Here is my list of goals for the year between August 4, 2009 – August 4, 2010
1. Get my scuba diving license
2. Go skydiving
3. Become an Oddfellow
4. Brush-up on my Latin – Read Harrius Potter et Philosphi Lapis
5. Write 10,000 word story (this is for NaNoWriMo)
6. Complete my BFG fleet, Horde army, and Chaos army (maybe too much here…)
7. Make a gaming table
8. Climb Half-dome in Yosemite
9. Get in great shape (swimming, running, cycling, maybe I should look into Triathlons?)
By make a gaming table do you mean terrain or… I said you can use our table for gaming, but I’d rather you didn’t glue anything to it because we need to pull it out when guests come over.
I mean two pieces of plywood with a hinge, that has been textured and can be put over a regular table…
great goals btw! =) I have faith you will accomplish all of them. We can plan a camping trip to Yosemite next summer and I’ll be there to bike or swim with you.
well, thank you!