End of Year Update on Goals

As part of the end-of-year wrap-up, here is the closing update on my goals for the year:

• Books: My target for the year was fairly modest, set to the same 30 books as last year. Unlike last year, however, I actually achieved this target - see the separate post (tomorrow) for the full rundown.
• Weight: This goal has been failed. There has been a very small amount of progress made, but nowhere near enough.
• Church Website: This has fallen by the wayside. I now have something approaching a plan for the website, but need to dedicate some time to making it happen. I do also need to get some information with which to populate the page. Ultimately, though, this goal was not completed.
• Career: This goal seemed to just naturally fall into place midway through the year. That was really great, and served to fix an awful lot of things. Good stuff!
• Redecoration: We had the windows replaced in July, which served to complete this goal. However, as a side-effect of that we found there was a need to fix some of the paintwork in the upstairs bathroom and didn't have the matching colour. This therefore led to us redecorating that room, thus leading to this goal being done and then some.
• Blogging:  I didn't set a formal blogging goal. If I had, I would have achieved it - this is the 119th post for the year, with one more scheduled for later today.
• Home Automation: This is another funny one - I didn't set a goal as such, but did have something in mind. In the event, that "something" was abandoned, as I think has been the rest of any automation plans, at least for now. I'm a little surprised by that, but not particularly disappointed.

So the final tally is three goals done, and two failed. Of the "non-goals", one was completed and the other abandoned (not failed). So I think we can assume a final score of 5-2 in favour, which can be considered pretty good overall.

As for goals for next year, I only have three:

• Books: The target for next year is a little more ambitious than this year: 36 books, or an average of 3 per month.
• Weight: This really needs addressed. The target is the same as this year: to lose 20 pounds in 2026.
• Church Website: This also carries over from last year - I want to get the website renovation done.

I've once again decided not to set a goal for Blogging, but will keep track of progress through the year. If I do hit the nominal target of 120 posts, I'll promote this to a proper goal in 2027.

#30: "Light Perpetual", by Andrzej Sapkowski

#31: "Crystal of Storms", by Rhianna Pratchett