nehal : Jul 9, 2009
- Financial
- Earn $5K from sources outside my primary income
- Give more to charity this year than I did last year
- 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.
- This is going to take a little bit longer. We just bought a new car
- Save $10K for our 2010 trip to Africa
- Just bought a new car, but I think we’ll make it
- Limit spending on dining out
- Could have been better, but coming down slowly
- Trying to eat out only 2 meals (1 lunch, 1 dinner) per week from mid-June to the end of July
- Travel
- Plan our trip to the UK (already paid for airfare in 2008)
- Organize the Africa trip for 2010
- Still going to be a while before we get this really rolling
- Visit Mom & Dad in Chicago
- Went home to Chicago again in June, but unfortunately not for a pleasure; Dad passed away on June 24.
- Friends & Family
- Call someone I haven’t spoken to in a while once a week
- Falling behind on this one
- Work
- Re-assess my career goals at my current employer
- 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
- Got to 26 during a workout!
- Run a 5K in under 23 minutes
- Perform 1 muscle-up
- Getting close; need more practice
- Perform Fran as prescribed in under 12 minutes
- It was tough at 85lbs, but still managed to do it in under 10 min then
- Learning
- Read 12 books
- Catch up on, and stay current with, my magazine subscriptions
- Photography
- Take one photography-specific trip (could be anywhere)
- Sell 5 stock photos
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