2017 has been a roller coaster of a year, there have been some big highs but also some huge lows. At the start of this year I set myself some goals which I mostly achieved:
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Life Lessons at 30
It seems odd to me to be turning 30 as at times I still feel like i’m in my early to mid 20s yet at other times I certainly do feel a bit older than I would still like to be.
A few years ago I had a number of friends turning 30 and some of them were having a little bit of a freakout. At the time I said to myself that by the time I turn 30 I won’t be freaking out like they did. Well I thought that until the day I turned 29 and then over the last year I’ve had plenty of freakouts to a number of my friends.
Read moreGoals for 2017
In no particular order:
- Continue to build savings through regular contributions
- Read 18 books
- Travel to the USA/Canada or Europe or Both
2016 – The Year of Change… Kinda
2016 has been a strange year, it has gone by very quickly, and has been full of change.
At the start of 2016 I set a small number of goals, while I only completely achieved two of them I feel I made progress towards all of them:
- Continue learning German
- During the first half of the year I continued well along this goal, however, by the end of the year any practice has fallen by the wayside.
- Travel and/or move to Europe or Singapore
- I spent a month travelling around Europe in February and tried for a job in Germany but was unsuccessful.
- Read 30 books
- I completed 27 books, which is fewer than the previous two years, however, after moving house I have a shorter commute to work which is where I do the majority of my reading.
Goals for 2016
Many of these goals are a continuation of goals from previous years
- Continue learning German
- Read 30 books
- Travel and/or move to Europe or Singapore
2015 – The Year of Challenges and Opportunities
At the start of the year I set some goals which I subsequently completely forgot about, but looking back now I achieved four out of five of them. They were:
- Continue learning German
- This goal ebbed and flowed, but in the later part of the year I completed around 90 days of continuous practice on Duolingo.com
- Learn python
- I completed multiple Coursera courses on python and had to crash course myself through it to work on a Baxter robot in the middle of the year.
- Go to Europe
- I went in February on a whim after finding myself out of work.
- Read 20 books
- I read 33!
Each month of the year also had a number of highlights:
Goals for 2015
- Continue learning German
- Learn python
- Go to Europe
- Read 20 books
2014 – The Year of Growth
Another year comes to an end. During this year I have achieved many of the goals I set myself in January:
- Continue Learning German – and go back to Germany.
- I did well with the German in the middle of the year, but in the later months I have done none.
- I still have a massive desire to return to Germany.
- Summit Mt Kosciusko
- Fourth year in a row that this hasn’t happened. But I did go skiing in the Snowy Mountains.
- Read at least ten books – including the six paperbacks I currently have unread.
- I have read 36 books! But have now amassed 14 more to be read. In May I decided to start reading on the bus in the morning rather than reading Facebook and Twitter on my phone.
- Buy a VF Commodore – I’ve wanted a Holden since I was in my teens.
- Still a pipe-dream
- Keep this blog up to date.
- I blogged fewer times than any previous year, so I avoided the problem.
The year has had many highlights:
Read moreGoals for 2014
In no particular, but some sort of order:
- Continue Learning German – and go back to Germany.
- Summit Mt Kosciusko – it has to be achieved some day soon.
- Read at least ten books – including the six paperbacks I currently have unread.
- Buy a VF Commodore – I’ve wanted a Holden since I was in my teens.
- Keep this blog up to date – In the last few months I’ve been about three months behind on posts.
2013 – The Year of Adventure
2013 has been great. It’s been a year of fantastic fun, growth and personal achievement.
At the start of 2013 I laid out some goals for the year, they were:
- Learn German
- I did far better at this than in 2012. I am still very much a beginner, but I am learning.
- Duolingo has been great for this.
- Summit Mt Kosciusko
- Once again this goal was elusive.
- Go on a holiday for at least a week without internet access
- I didn’t end up away for a whole week without internet, but there were a few weekends of digital silence.
An additional personal achievement was reading 12 books over the year – four histories, three science, three theology, and two novels.
There are also a number of highlights from throughout the year:
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