Every year I try to document out what I am trying to accomplish the next year. As one might expect I don't always get my goals, but it's nice to have a good outline. Here (opens new window) is my post from last year.

2017 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

CAREER

• Maintained and grew a Denver UX to 1951 members. The meetup did two events a month

• Got a great new job

• Gave talks on both design and development

PERSONAL

• Wrote 4 blog posts for tymerry.com (opens new window) and 10 blog posts for TravelSaveandBeMerry (opens new window). My goal was 12 blog posts, so beat it by two

• Volunteered at library teaching design and development.

• was able to do 3 pull-ups and bench 135, but then stopped exercising.

• Did several trips with only a small backpack, proving I can do some pretty minimalist travel

• Reached a state of "blank slate". Money, time, flexibility are no longer limiting factors in my life

• Created a bucket list

FINANCIAL

• Savings rate greater than 65%

• Passed the 1/2 way point to financial independence

MISSED GOALS

• Didn't updated blogs to the latest version of ghost

• I set several goals that weren't really definable for success or failure

2018 GOALS

• Read 12 books

• Write 12 blog posts

• Get a solo chicken dinner in PUBG

• Define who I want to be, this will be shown in something like [Zen of Python]

• Be comfortable saying "I am a developer" (be able to create a CRUD app from scratch and have an example)

• Generate $1 from a business that isn't consulting/contracting