Day 300: Update on Goals

I've been giving a lot of thought to the topic of goals recently, in particular focused on the larger question of "what do I want?" This has led to some interesting conclusions... but that's a topic for another day.

For today, it's time for the penultimate update on goals for the year...

• Books: By this point I should have read 24.6 books, and have actually read 18 and parts of two others. I'm therefore well behind target - so far behind in fact that I've actually deleted the part of my spreadsheet that tracks the target for me. (Yes, I have a spreadsheet for these things.) I'm now hoping to complete another five books or so by the end of the year, which would leave me well away from the target, but does at least represent something approaching a decent last two months for the year.
• Blogging: I've gradually restarted blogging here after many slow months. Hopefully that will stick. I'm also in the process of bringing the Imaginarium to the 1,000 posts milestone - I hope to reach that by the end of the year; whether I achieve that or not, I intend to place that blog on indefinite hiatus at the end of the year.
• Redecoration: This was considered complete in the previous update.
• Complete my Campaign: This was considered complete in the previous update.
• Update the Church Website: There has been only a tiny update since last time. There will be a couple of further small updates before the end of the year (one for the Armistice and one for Christmas), but that's probably all. I really need to start the ball rolling on a fuller update - that will be a key task for next year, I think.

The consequence of all of that is that I have completed two goals but have accepted that the other three are now failed. However, I am now making renewed progress on two of those three goals, which is something - in terms of the year it will of course count as a failure, but since the formal goals are a means to an end, making some progress is better than just shrugging and giving up.