I was going to do a net worth analysis but I will save that until the halfway point in the year: medical, physio, and other costs are adding up… about $400 so far this month. The walking cast cost me 200 bucks, uninsured.
I did go to Europe - and I got back in one piece - so that goal was accomplished.
My athletic goals are pretty much all forsaken now. I am hoping beyond hope that the pain in my “good” foot in the same area as the “bad” one isn’t indicative of another stress fracture of the 4th metatarsal. If I have to spend the rest of my summer in a g(*@$%& wheelchair I think someone will find me hanging from a noose in my sweltering hot apartment.
If I ever do bike/run/walk again in my cursed life, I may indeed be faster: I am now 12 pounds lighter than when I arrived home from Europe. Sure, the Guinness and “frites” packed on some insulation, but I’ve lost a good 7 more in my quest to heal. Eating three pounds a day of calcium-rich greens will do that to anyone. Now I just don’t feel like eating - as I realized while I force-fed myself a red onion and a bunch of spinach today - so I’m bound to lose more. Actually, I don’t feel like doing much at all.
As for schooling/ CFA: I gave it a good attempt. But one thing I can attest to now: I never want ti have a CFA designation. In fact, I do not want a finance-related career.
Too bad that’s what I spent 5 years of my life working toward. So shoot me.
Showing posts with label goal-setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goal-setting. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
June Report on the New Year’s Goals
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Progress Report on the New Year's Goals
A quick status update:
As for doubling my "Net Worth", January got off on shaky footing, with a net loss of $24.00. I'm currently scrabbling to calculate what kind of RSP contribution top-up I can make before month-end. ING dropped their regular savings rates by 0.1% and that added insult to injury. Stay tuned.
However, progress on the "Travel at least once out of the country" goal was great, with all flights purchased (Ottawa-London, London-Cork, Dublin-Amsterdam, Amsterdam-London, London-Ottawa) and... drumroll please... my passport came in last week by ExpressPost. I also booked the time off work. Next step: travel insurance.
The athletic goals are coming along slower than expected... I've ditched my Garmin for the winter because it's too depressing. I'm back on the trainer 3x per week and it's pretty darn hard at that. Doing my best with swimming, but it's hard to forget that 15 months previous, I was blowing bubbles and learning how to float. It shows, too!
And for my unnamed goals, well... rumour has it that things may be looking up...!
As for doubling my "Net Worth", January got off on shaky footing, with a net loss of $24.00. I'm currently scrabbling to calculate what kind of RSP contribution top-up I can make before month-end. ING dropped their regular savings rates by 0.1% and that added insult to injury. Stay tuned.
However, progress on the "Travel at least once out of the country" goal was great, with all flights purchased (Ottawa-London, London-Cork, Dublin-Amsterdam, Amsterdam-London, London-Ottawa) and... drumroll please... my passport came in last week by ExpressPost. I also booked the time off work. Next step: travel insurance.
The athletic goals are coming along slower than expected... I've ditched my Garmin for the winter because it's too depressing. I'm back on the trainer 3x per week and it's pretty darn hard at that. Doing my best with swimming, but it's hard to forget that 15 months previous, I was blowing bubbles and learning how to float. It shows, too!
And for my unnamed goals, well... rumour has it that things may be looking up...!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Goals for 2008
Do you have any New Year’s resolutions?
Most people nowadays scoff at the question; how passé, how out of vogue! The most common answer is: “I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions,” and it is said flippantly with a small, condescending smile.
To be fair, “resolution” is an ugly word—indeed, a misnomer. Resolutions are made to be broken! They are doomed to failure, because they imply broad and sweeping transformations of self; such changes are admittedly difficult and complex, often requiring the support of third parties and a timeline longer than 365 days. Such transformations are total life changes, and should not be consigned to the January–February cycle of failure. I do not wish to suggest that they should not be attempted, but rather that a series of smaller, attainable goals with tangible rewards may be more beneficial in the long term.
Lest I not appear a hypocrite myself, I offer my own experience for 2007: last year I set 10 personally challenging but achievable goals which I did in fact accomplish during the year. Two of these were subject to modification in June during the mid-year review, but on New Year’s Eve I checked back through the list and could feel genuinely happy with my progress. Thus it is with the glow of past success—and some measure of blind foolishness—that I present a new list for 2008.
Note: I have had to edit for public digest.
1. Whoops – can’t disclose this one!
2. Travel out of the province at least once (somewhere I haven’t yet been)
3. Travel out of the country at least once (and the US doesn’t count)
4. Begin the pursuit of either a professional designation or a second degree
5. Double my Net Worth (calculated as assets – liabilities)
6. Whoops – can’t disclose this one either!
7. Stop ripping my hair out (yup… don’t laugh)
8. Earn at least a ‘B’ in French oral (c’est assez difficile à parler bien en ANGLAIS)
9. Do at least four of a list of skill-building clinics, events, or group training sessions relating to triathlon (which I will refrain from listing here).
10. Do at least three of the following (caveat: I learned to swim last year!):
*Move up a lane
*Learn ‘fly (oh please!)
*Learn to do a somewhat decent dive
*Learn flip-turns
*Complete an open water swim >= 2K
*Do my first ‘real’ triathlon
11. Do at least one of the following:
*Improve my best Oly Du time by 5 mins (2:33:46)
*Run a Half-Mary sub 1:50
*Place in top 3 women in any event (or top 25% of women in triathlon, given my atrocious swim times)
12. Write 3 letters or articles that are accepted for publishing in the media
13. Do at least three things this year that scare me to death (note: a lot of things scare me to death).
And just for fun, a list of things that my friends would like to see me do for 2008:
1. Drink more
2. Stay out late
3. Train less
4. Stop worrying
5. Have more fun
6. Answer the phone more often
7. Wear colours other than black, white, blue, and grey
8. Walk slower
9. Sleep in past 8:00 on a Sunday
10. Stop using the words “only” and “10k” in the same sentence
Most people nowadays scoff at the question; how passé, how out of vogue! The most common answer is: “I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions,” and it is said flippantly with a small, condescending smile.
To be fair, “resolution” is an ugly word—indeed, a misnomer. Resolutions are made to be broken! They are doomed to failure, because they imply broad and sweeping transformations of self; such changes are admittedly difficult and complex, often requiring the support of third parties and a timeline longer than 365 days. Such transformations are total life changes, and should not be consigned to the January–February cycle of failure. I do not wish to suggest that they should not be attempted, but rather that a series of smaller, attainable goals with tangible rewards may be more beneficial in the long term.
Lest I not appear a hypocrite myself, I offer my own experience for 2007: last year I set 10 personally challenging but achievable goals which I did in fact accomplish during the year. Two of these were subject to modification in June during the mid-year review, but on New Year’s Eve I checked back through the list and could feel genuinely happy with my progress. Thus it is with the glow of past success—and some measure of blind foolishness—that I present a new list for 2008.
Note: I have had to edit for public digest.
1. Whoops – can’t disclose this one!
2. Travel out of the province at least once (somewhere I haven’t yet been)
3. Travel out of the country at least once (and the US doesn’t count)
4. Begin the pursuit of either a professional designation or a second degree
5. Double my Net Worth (calculated as assets – liabilities)
6. Whoops – can’t disclose this one either!
7. Stop ripping my hair out (yup… don’t laugh)
8. Earn at least a ‘B’ in French oral (c’est assez difficile à parler bien en ANGLAIS)
9. Do at least four of a list of skill-building clinics, events, or group training sessions relating to triathlon (which I will refrain from listing here).
10. Do at least three of the following (caveat: I learned to swim last year!):
*Move up a lane
*Learn ‘fly (oh please!)
*Learn to do a somewhat decent dive
*Learn flip-turns
*Complete an open water swim >= 2K
*Do my first ‘real’ triathlon
11. Do at least one of the following:
*Improve my best Oly Du time by 5 mins (2:33:46)
*Run a Half-Mary sub 1:50
*Place in top 3 women in any event (or top 25% of women in triathlon, given my atrocious swim times)
12. Write 3 letters or articles that are accepted for publishing in the media
13. Do at least three things this year that scare me to death (note: a lot of things scare me to death).
And just for fun, a list of things that my friends would like to see me do for 2008:
1. Drink more
2. Stay out late
3. Train less
4. Stop worrying
5. Have more fun
6. Answer the phone more often
7. Wear colours other than black, white, blue, and grey
8. Walk slower
9. Sleep in past 8:00 on a Sunday
10. Stop using the words “only” and “10k” in the same sentence
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