Follow-up on 2009 Goals

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January 7th, 2010

Final Count:  7.5/15

2009 was a crazy year for me with an international move, tons of travel (15 countries), unemployment, and an engagement.  But even with all of that going on, I was able to accomplish alot.  Here is the summary:

1. Weigh 205 lbs – Nope.
2. Finish 1 major race (marathon, 1/2 ironman, or century bike) – Half credit.  I trained for five months for the Amsterdam marathon but was unable to run the race due to an injury.
3. Move abroad – Emily and I moved to Zürich, Switzerland in February (although I am still working on a visa so I can stay full time).
4. Visit 3 new countries – Visited 9 new countries:  Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Czech Republic, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Qatar, Laos
5. Learn a new programming language – Learned Python (and Django) to create devcheatsheet.com
6. Build and launch at least 1 website – Done -  devcheatsheet.com
7. Finish lifestream and webtemplategenerator.com – Didn’t get around to finishing these; focused instead on launching DevCheatSheet.com
8. Read 4+ programming books – Only read 1 programming book:  The Definitive Guide to Django
9. $100/month passive income – Not yet…just starting to get some traffic so hopefully I will be able to start making a little bit of passive income in 2010
10. Max ROTH-IRA contribution – Done.
11. Save $25k – I was on track for this goal until the startup ran out of funding and I was out of a job.  Since then my bank accounts have been going down instead of up.
12. Learn a foreign language – I’m going to give myself credit for this one after finishing a 3 month intensive A1 German course (although I am still a beginner).
13. Read 30 books – Read 37 books – full list on LibraryThing.com
14. Write first draft of movie screenplay – Never started.
15. Photography class – No class, but I finally bought a DSLR and have taken a lot of photographs this year.