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Jan

2011 Goal Wrap-Up

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Personal

  1. Have a baby.  We’ve got a pretty good jump-start on this one.SUCCESS!  In case you’ve been living under a rock, Eve Marie Dalcher was born on March 23rd.  She is awesome, and here is a photo album to prove it.
  2. Give more.  Tasha and I aim to give 5% of our income to charity this year.SUCCESS!  We hit that target, and then some… including donations of our time to charitable causes.
  3. Save 3-6 months of expenses in our big emergency fund.FAIL!  The baby, the new car, and several visits by Murphy have reduced our emergency fund to below the 3 month mark.

Recreation

  1. Train at the dojo as often as possible.  I’m going to shoot for more workouts than last year (53).FAIL!  Because of my lack of blogging (see below) I don’t even really know how many workouts I got in this year, but I can tell you that it’s around or less than last year.  The trials of new parenthood and the demands of the office were the primary causes, as well as a general lack of motivation that I’m not proud of.
  2. Build a guitar.  I’m going to start with a StewMac kit and go from there, starting as soon as the weather gets warm.SUCCESS (kinda)!  Instead of building a StewMac kit, I built a ukulele for my Dad instead.  It features a French Polish finish that took 3.5 months to apply, and it went very well.  I’m counting it.
  3. Daily blogging.  Same metrics as last year.FAIL!  This one fell prey to fatherhood as well.  The numbers aren’t even close enough to count, with entire months going by without a word here.  I have become more active on Facebook, less so on Twitter so I am still sharing… it just hasn’t been here.
So how do I feel about this mixed bag of goals?  In a word, conflicted.
There are some great successes in there (Eve is the most notable, charity is second).  We need to get back on the financial wagon in many ways, and I feel bad about that since we hit a grand slam on the debt front last year.  It is clear to me that my recreational needs are changing now that I’m a Dad.
I’m going to give it some thought and set my 2012 goals in the next day or two, I need to figure out how I’m going to address and monitor the goals that I set to make them actually happen this year.  Any advice from the peanut gallery would be greatly appreciated.

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