The Man with No Time

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 2018 was a bit disappointing as far as my personal goals for the year are concerned. After a slight improvement in 2017 (after years of fairly constant performance), 2018 saw me slide back below 50% completion. I want to get above that magical boundary again this year, and I see two possibly ways to do that. 1) Keep broadly the same goals and try a bit harder this year 2) Make some radical changes to the goals - delete some, make some easier, etc. I think I'll be taking a mixed approach - some goals will definitely go the way of the dodo, and may or may not be replaced, but on the whole I'm not too keen on making things easier for myself just to pad my stats. I like having goals that push me to continue doing the things I enjoy, but which can easily fall by the wayside because of work or laziness (for example my books target). I just have to face up to the fact that although in years past I could have completed many of the goals in multiple h...

2018 has been a strange year. I think I did reasonably well at changing up my list of goals to reflect the changes that happened in 2017, but there has definitely been some delayed reaction to those changes.  I'll say up front that I'm cautiously optimistic about my list of goals for the year, but I also know that there have been some big failures. Let's see how this goes.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 2017 saw another improvement in the number of my personal goals that I achieved, but I'm still some way below where I would like to be. As I mentioned in my review of the year though, there were some big changes in my life in 2017 that weren't necessarily reflected in my success rate, and that will require some adjustments in how I set goals for myself moving forwards.

2017 has been an interesting year for me. There are a couple of big things that I achieved this year, but that didn't necessarily help with my stated goals. On the other hand, some of those stated goals now seem ridiculous, even though I tried to be more realistic this year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! It's part three of my traditional end of year set of posts. I've done my review of 2016, and had a look at how well I did with my goals (lets not call them resolutions) for the year. This time around I'll be setting a new set of goals for the coming year. After several years of poor success, 2016 saw an upturn in my completion rate for these goals. There was still a certain amount of over-ambition going on though I feel, so I'll be reining in some of the particularly unsuccessful categories a little in an effort to gain some more.

Every year I set myself a set of goals for my work and hobbies. Things that I want to achieve, ideals for the amount of hobby time I'll set aside for each pastime, etc. Traditionally I've not had much success, whether from lack of time or excess of ambition, but 2016 has seen more success than the previous couple of years. Let's take a look at how well I did.

What a year! I don't think I'm alone in being glad to see the back of 2016. It's been a pretty rubbish year on many fronts; several high profile deaths, and a lot of controversial politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Unfortunately, a lot of what was wrong with this year is only the beginning of what will almost certainly end up being long-term changes to the wider world. The New Year won't be a magical cure-all, but probably just the harbinger of even more unsettled times. But enough moping around. Let's do the traditional year's-end review for the blog, starting with a look back at the year just passed. (Credit: http://thanksgiving2016day.blogspot.co.uk/)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Rather than making 'traditional' New Year's resolutions, I like to set myself a few goals to try and meet each year. The number of goals I set seems to increase every year, and covers the gamut of my activities, from work to gaming via TV, books, and sport. I find that doing this helps my balance my various hobbies, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Over the last few years my success at meeting these goals has seen a rather precipitous decline! But still I persevere. At the very least it's entertaining to see how badly I do each year. As per usual, I'll be trying to make my goals relatively achievable. In some cases I'll be building on experience from the last couple of years (a '*' marks those carried over from 2015).

As part of my traditional New Year restrospective, I set myself a series of personal goals for 2015. These covered a range of hobbies, my work, sport, etc., and were designed to be at least vaguely achievable. In 2013 I did pretty well, but 2014 was a bit of failure. So how did 2015 go? Well........in a word, poorly.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I don't tend to go in for 'normal' New Year's resolutions. Instead, I like to set myself a few targets and goals to try and meet over the coming year. These range from work-related to hobby-related, and I find them a good way of balancing up my various hobbies, and of maintaining a decent work-life balance. My success has been pretty mixed over the last couple of years; in 2013 I met about half of my goals, but 2014 was a bit of a failure on many fronts. Still, I'm going to persevere. As per usual, I'll be trying to make my goals relatively achievable. In some cases I'll be building on experience from the last couple of years (a '*' marks those carried over or repeated from 2014).

As has become my tradition, I set myself a series of personal goals for 2014. These covered a variety of my hobbies, my work, sport, etc., and were designed to be at least vaguely achievable. In 2013 I did pretty well, so how did I do in 2014?

2014 has almost come to an end, so it's time for my three-part, end-of-year review. In the first instalment I'll be looking back on 2014, and what I made of it. (Credit: 123rf.com)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! This is the third and final part of my year's end review. Last time I looked at my goals from last year, and found that I'd achieved roughly half of them. This time around I'm going to be setting my goals for this year. As with every time I do this, I'll be trying (on the whole) to make them plausible. They're more to encourage me to push on with my hobbies than to be any kind of life-changing aspirations, so don't expect anything too wild. (Note that * marks those carried over or repeated from last year)

Part two of my end of year review, and I'm again looking back at 2013. This time I'm going to look at the goals I set myself for the year, and see how successful I was at achieving them. 2012 didn't go too well, so have I managed to go any better this time around?

It doesn't seem that long ago that I was writing my end of 2012 review. A lots happened in 2013, and it seems to have gone past in a blur at times. On the other hand bits of it have seemed interminable, so I suppose it's a wash really! Anyway, I'm going to reprise my set of three end-of-year posts: part 1 will be a review of the events and happenings in my life during 2013; in part 2 (tomorrow) I'll look at how well I met my goals for the year, and in part 3 (on New Year's Day) I'll be setting my goals for 2014 I rather liked this image. Quite appropriate. (Credit: linda-dawn-designs.blogspot.com)

After my post looking back at 2012 , it’s time to look towards the future. As I’ve done for the last few years I’m going to set myself some goals to work towards for the year. Not resolutions as such, but guidelines to help me structure my time a bit. My goals will be split into several categories, and are shaped by how close I got to similar goals in previous years.

The end of the year is nigh! Like most of the blogosphere, I’m going to mark the occasion by taking a look back at the year that’s ending. 2012 has been a pretty good year for me all told, but how well did I meet my aims and goals for the year? Spoiler Alert: I missed a lot of my targets for 2012.

It’s the end of the year 2012? Well, almost. Over the next few days I’m going to be writing a series of posts based around reviewing the year that’s gone, and looking ahead to 2013. To start it off, I’ll be using a meme that my friend James has posted every year. It’s a set of questions designed to test your recollective powers. Or at least that’s how it felt! I rather liked this image. Quite appropriate. (Credit: liveoutload.com)