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2005.01.06

January Blogging Challenge

Uncle Roger presents this month’s blogging challenge: come up with an evaluation of last year’s goals and a new set of goals for this year.

This is going to be a sucky one for me because generally I am not keen on making goals of this sort, but he has some astute advice:

This should not be a facile collection of cliches like “I will lose weight” or “I’m going to save some money” but carefully thought out, significant goals for your life. Don’t just list indefinite, non-specific platitudes, but specific, achievable goals. Include a plan for accomplishing each goal with concrete milestones and dates.

He goes on to give many examples.

There are two parts to the challenge. First is to list last year’s goals and rate their success. Jason Clark did this admirably on his site, and I’ll use his template. The second part of the challenge is to set realistic goals for this coming year, with specific dates for those goals. With that in mind, here we go…

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