I did a 2008 recap with 2009 goals, and I thought it would be good to revisit those from last year, see where I progressed.
Lose more weight. 20 pounds lighter by January 2010.
How’d I do? I fluctuated a lot, but I’m not down 20 pounds from last year. I was down 15, but have gone back up in December (bad month for me), so now I’m down 9. Not my goal of 20, which I’d still like to hit.
Financial stability – I have a number in mind (and written down) as to where I want to be at the end of 2009. Never written one down before – we’ll see how that goes.
Not where I wanted to be, but 2009 was a much healthier year for me than 2008 was. I got more than halfway to the written goal in pure raw income (which was a pleasant surprise of its own!), but expenses took a chunk away from that.
GroovyMag and related projects being profitable enough to meet all basic living expenses every month by the middle of 2009. This is a somewhat modest goal, not over the top. The over the top stuff comes a bit later.
Check, though it wasn’t by the middle of 2009.
Get in to other information publishing arenas – books, videos, training – either produced by myself, or acting in the publisher role for other talented people.
Didn’t pursue this as much as I’d wanted initially. I became more cautious, and have held back, with some new plans formulating.
Speak at at least one conference this year (besides Codemash, which I just got back from).
I presented to the SouthEastern Java User Group, spoke at two CodeCamps (Charlotte and Raleigh) and perhaps something else – I can’t remember now! I attended the GR8 conference in Copenhagen, hit up CodeStock in Knoxville, and attended the ColdFusion in NC conference in October.
I need to take stock of my 2010 goals and will publish them in the next few days or so.
