Summary for 2009

It was really a busy year, and I actually had to go back to my original list of goals for 2009 to remember all the things I had set out and checked off.

• Create and perform my own form @ the Tiger Challenge - done and performed Spring of 2009.
• 50 pushups (real ones) a day for a total of 18,250 for the year - failed miserably on this one ... it looked good until July of 2009 then I had two car accidents one in July & one in October and was reduced to knee pushups at best.
• 50 situps a day for a total of 18,250 for the year - set this one way to easy ... increased it to 100 a day ... so I blew this one out of the water.
• Anger Management Course - done back in April of 2009 ... learned alot
• Silver level in 8 dances (ballroom dancing) - completed in Nov 2009
• Compete in ballroom dance competition - completed in Oct 2009
• Know Tai Chi long form by Sept 2009 - so I know it better than I did before but its not ready to show Sifu Brinker ... needs more work.
• Leadership Project ... crashed and burned ... good idea, the implementation was the problem ...

Read:

• A New Earth - I've started it three times this year, having a hard time finishing, can't speed read your way thru this one.
• No Impact Man - great book, learned alot
• Three Cups of Tea - great book, this guy knows how to stick to his committments
• The Peaceful Warrior - still collecting dust on the bookshelf
• Being Peace - small book ... big messages ... I will be reading this a few times over as I have a tendancy to speed read and miss things and you don't want to miss anything in this one.

What I learned ... daily routines were the hardest to implement and stick to, I got what I got done in starts and spurts, the pushups, situps and tai chi suffered the most from my failure to commit to a daily/weekly routine of training. I am disappointed in my performance on this ... it wasn't even that hard to do 50 pushups a day or go thru my tai chi form, I just failed to make these things a priority and rearrange my schedule to incorporate them as part of my day. I got caught up in the urgent tasks and not the IMPORTANT ones.

Still I got alot more accomplished than I would have had I not set these goals, which is I guess the point and it made me aware that I need to rework my planning for 2010 to eliminate or at least reduce my tendancy to get caught up in busy work

I attended an Alpha Mind Course this weekend that included some work on Goal Setting so I should have new year goals all set out by the end of the month.