Every year, I do a retrospective of the outgoing year and go over my resolutions for the upcoming year. More after the cut.
2017 Retrospective
They say 2017 was a bad year. Even worse than 2016.
Unlike 2016, 2017 was bad for me personally. I bit off way more than I could chew. Accomplished very few of my personal goals. I’m not going to go over my 2016 Resolutions since they were a mess. I set out monthly goals and accomplished about 4 of them. I also set up a reading list of 4 books to read and read only 1 of them.
A big part of this was that I decided to start a second DnD game. While this takes up a non-insignificant amount of my free time, this is something I enjoy doing and something I think is worth doing. So I just need to work around it, rather than try to cut it out. (Although maybe a year or two down the line, I might hand the reins to someone else.) Also, video games. Lots and lots of video games.
There were also a few good things that came out of 2017. For example, I paid off my mortgage, 25 years early. I still haven’t decided what I’m going to do with that extra money now that I don’t have a mortgage to pay off. Probably save 80% of it and spend the remaining 20%.
2018 Resolutions
Quarterly Goals – Since monthly goals didn’t quite work out, I’m going to do quarterly goals instead.
- Q1 – Post piano video (1/2)
- Q2 – Clear out / give away the extra stuff in my garage, extra Magic cards, etc
- Q3 – Post piano video (2/2)
- Q4 – TBD by end of Q2
I know that TBD is probably cheating, but I think it’s a good idea to see what I can handle before I try to bite off a bit more. Plus, this leaves me room to think of something cool in the next 6 months, that I can then commit to doing by the end of the year.
Reading List – I had 4 books on my list, and I only read 1, and am halfway through the second one. So clearly my resolution for next year is to finish this book, and read a second book by the end of June. And as a stretch goal, pick and read a second book by the end of the year.
Reading list:
- Snow Crash (recommended by Charles E)
- TBD by end of June
Also, this next bit isn’t a resolution, but I promised my friends I’d get into Legacy and play in GP Seattle in April this year. I’ve already been playtesting Legacy for a while, but now I have my own pet Dredge deck that I’ve been working on and practicing with.
I owe somebody steak…