February Goals Update

  • Financial
    • Earn $5K from sources outside my primary income
      • Not much yet
    • Give more to charity this year than I did last year
      • On track
    • Finish building and maintain a 6-month emergency fund
      • Been doing some extra spending lately. Hopefully this will settle down. Plus I think I need to extend this to a 12-month cushion in this economy.
    • Save $10K for our 2010 trip to Africa
      • Getting there
    • Limit spending on dining out
      • Could have been better, but coming down slowly
  • Travel
    • Plan our trip to the UK (already paid for airfare in 2008)
      • Plans are falling into place
    • Organize the Africa trip for 2010
      • Still going to be a while before we get this really rolling
    • Visit Mom & Dad in Chicago
      • Done! May plan another trip later this year
  • Friends & Family
    • Call someone I haven’t spoken to in a while once a week
      • On track. Spent an hour catching up with Jay this weekend.
  • Work
    • Re-assess my career goals at my current employer
      • Job = $. Period.
    • Re-establish discipline in day-to-day task management
      • Getting there. Still tough with the daily deluge of email and being pulling 20 directions
  • Health & Fitness
    • Stay on the Zone diet and track my progress using FitDay
      • Have not started at fitday yet
    • Perform 30 pull-ups without rest
      • Need to work on grip strength
    • Run a 5K in under 23 minutes
    • Perform 1 muscle-up
    • Perform Fran as prescribed in under 12 minutes
  • Learning
    • Read 12 books
    • Catch up on, and stay current with, my magazine subscriptions
      • Stack is still huge
  • Photography
    • Take one photography-specific trip (could be anywhere)
    • Sell 5 stock photos

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