Successes

1. Lose Weight. I have definitely lost weight. Although my goal was really lose fat, gain muscle, I did do that too. I am very close to having no pot belly left so that is totally cool. I have been carrying around this weight for 10 years (although losing some of it over the last 5 or 6). This has been one of my priorities for years and I am getting close to full success.

2. Run a 5k, Run a 10k, Swim 750m, complete a triathlon. I have completed the 5k, the 10k and the swim 750m. I am getting close to completing the triathlon. I was so unfit on January 1st of this year, that I would have bet any amount of money that I would never have been able to run 5k. Here I have done 2 5k races and a 10k. Of all the things that I have done in the last little while, there is no doubt that achieving these goals has made me the most proud. Success here has made me a more powerful actuated human being. Not only this, but I took my kids on a 1k Canada Day run because they saw daddy running and wanted to train themselves. They got fantastic little medals and they were so proud and rightfully so.

3. Identify 100 things that make me happy. Just having this goal on my list makes me happy.

4. Not just that goal, but having my list is awesome. More importantly, just being able to sustain my activity here makes me feel impowered. This has been due in no small part to the people here. I think beyond anything, I am so happy with the people that I have met here. In many ways I feel freer to share my hopes and goals here than I would be to my friends and wife.

5. Start a cult. I have started one. Sure it is small, but it is awesome. If I wasn’t in this cult, this would be the one I would join. Still waiting for people to send in their photos of themselves in their togas.

In Progress

1. Learn Spanish. Go to Mexico again, Go to Italy again, Get more sleep, Go someplace very dark and look at the stars all night, Discover what I want to do with my life, Finish what I start, bodyboard, Draw Better, Sketch More, Learn harmonica. All these goals are coming along. Not too much progress, but no failure yet.

Not So Successful So Far

1. Become a photographer, Take 43 pictures…, Identify 100 things…, Take a good picture of myself. All of these have been stymied by the fact that I haven’t replaced my digital camera. I really, really want to get my new camera. The insurance company paid off and I have a whole whack of gift cards to the camera store. I should jump on this one soon. Maybe this weekend. I included the Identify 100 things here as well because I have only been using entries with my own photographs and my lack of photographs has slowed me down.

Failures

1. I have utterly failed at Live Sexy, Organize my Life, and Explore my Sexual Boundaries. I have not been able to make any headway in my marriage. Although things are bad right now, I am sure they will go back to their normal routine of being tolerable, distant and decidedly unsensual. I won’t be able to talk to my wife or work out any progress in our shared interests/desires to live sexy. The failure to organize my personal life is only compounded by the fact that my business life is out of control busy/crazy.

2. Change the world for the better. I was pretty close this time last year to actually organizing Landscape Architects, Architects and Engineers in British Columbia and across Canada, into a group that would work internationally to create sustainable development solutions in developing nations. By now, that is almost nothing more than a memory. I would really like to push this further, but I am so busy…

So, in a nutshell, here is my evaluation. Next step, a plan to see if I can do better and see if I need to rearrange my priorities…