I didn’t accomplish all my goals this year. But, in Googley thinking (external perspective on what I mean by that here), that’s actually a good thing. It means I’m pushing myself. I feel pretty good about everything I accomplished this year. Not great. But pretty good. This sort of felt like one of those years where you work your butt off and don’t really see very much progress, but it’s all really important work that will pay off later. At least, that’s how I hope this turns out…
These were my 2016 (non-work-related) goals:
- Swimming <– Total Score: 67%
- swim at least 215 days out of the year (compared to 207 days in 2015) <– Score: 86%… I only swam 184 days out of the year
- swim at least 400 miles (660k yards) total (compared to ~386 miles in 2015) <–Score: 94%… I ended the year with 374 miles total
- drop time in my top five events, ideally trying for the following SCY goal times: <– Score: 20%… I didn’t really race SCY this year, but I did race LCM Nationals and placed 9th in the Nation in 200m breast
- 2:47.59 in 200 breast (current best = 2:51.65)
- 1:17.89 in 100 breast (current best = 1:18.62)
- 36.9 in 50 breast (current best = 37.75)
- 2:55.36 in 200 fly (current best = 3:03.87)
- 5:43.8 in 400 IM (current best = 5:59.11)
- Writing <– Total Score: 83%
- Finish my 2013 and 2014 NaNoWriMo drafts (both currently just over 50k words and about 60% done) <– Score: 50%… I should have revised this because plans changed when I got in to P2P and spent the first 4 months of this year working on “TLE” instead
- Polish my 2015 NaNoWriMo first draft <– Score: 100%
- Participate in NaNoWriMo 2016 as Marin County Municipal Liaison and write 50k new words in Nov <– Score: 100%
- Reading <– Total Score: 70%
- 50 books total (~1 per week) <– Score: 100%
- Keep track of how many books I’m reading against the 2016 “Read Harder” challenge list <– Score: 100%… note how this does not say I needed to finish the challenge… 🙂
- Read mostly books I already own and try to get my to-read shelf (books I own but haven’t read yet) on Goodreads to less than 60 books (this list currently contains more than 100 books… ) <–Score: 0… Massive fail. I added at least as many books as I read this year…
- Write at least one blog post per week about what I’m reading and why (with photos) <– Score: 80%… I posted nearly 60 posts this year, which is more than one per week, on average. Not all of them were about what I was reading, but the vast majority of them were, and I did at least do a monthly review post through September.
Overall Score = 73%
I’m still working on goals for 2017. I am trying to make sure that I’m making them flexible, but specific enough that they keep me focused on what’s most important. For example, it’s unlikely you’ll see another “swim 400 miles” or specific goal times for races in 2017. I already know that competing isn’t going to be my priority next year, and not just because I’m now at the top of my age bracket. But more on that in a future post… For now, I’m just going to celebrate all I managed to accomplish this year, on top of working a pretty intense and demanding job with a ridiculous commute.
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