I didn't post this at the start of 2012, but here's me facing up to the 2012 new year resolutions I set in January:
1.
Beat my 2011 marathon time of 4:16:49 by finishing Auckland Marathon
2012 in under four hours.
100% – bad sprain/tear in my ankle put me out of action for this, but I’m
calling it a pass because of the amazing experience running with Shelley for
her first ever ½ marathon, and trusting my fitness & state of my ankle for
the run.
2.
Finish my novel ‘Sideswipe’ and send to >1 agent.
50%, I finished my first novel this year – in first draft so yet to send
to an agent.
3.
Get at least one credible job offer from an international organisation.
N/A - went fishing half-heartedly for options at start of the year but
did not follow through once we decided to stay in NZ.
4.
Buy $1,000 in shares.
0%
5.
Achieve Associate Emergency Manager certification through the
International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM).
0%
6.
Do 100 press-ups in a row.
0% - Hate to think how many I can do in a row but lets just say it's no improvement from January!
7.
Go to Malaysia for my brother’s wedding in April.
100% - Had an amazing time!
8.
Sell our house.
100% - And bought an amazing house!
9.
Complete the November 2012 ‘Nanowrimo’
100% - And 100% harder than 2011 but got through it!
10. Get another tattoo
0% - still can’t decide what I’d get
11. Run 20 new routes
100% - loving the Blockhouse bay road/trail/beach running!
12. Take 100 quality
photos in 24 hours
0% - fail
13. Cook my way through
one cookbook
30% - was right on track with this and having fun, but stopped for no
particular reason
14. Change my ‘look’ five
times
80% - changed things up, even grew a beard for a while. Not a total change but had fun.
15. Write 10 quality blog
entries and post (& Twitter) them.
100% - Bottom dropped out of this by mid-year but had fun with some
posts at start of year. http://stasisremoved.blogspot.co.nz/
16. Read 26 books
50% - halfway there?
17. Learn jujitsu
0% - fail. Where did that resolution
come from?! I think I was drunk
18. Scan in my
grandfather’s WWII letters (again)
0% - did not get around to this.
19. Learn A-Z in sign
language
0% - fail
20. Improve my mile time
by 1 minute (tested myself on the track on 3rd January 2012 at
7 mins 19 secs)
N/A – ankle injury
So… 45% for this year
for a very random list of resolutions, but out of the actually important resolutions (1, 7, 8, 9 and 18), I got 80%!
Also... wrote my first ever full (first draft) novel, got my first ever short story published - from a competition too, and managed to balance work and family life - spending lots of time with Shelley and Hayley..
Also... wrote my first ever full (first draft) novel, got my first ever short story published - from a competition too, and managed to balance work and family life - spending lots of time with Shelley and Hayley..
Go me.
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