learnedax | New year's introspection, belated

Having been completely out of touch with LJ for a while, I never got around to my annual review of the previous year's objectives. So, a month late, here's a look back at last year's list.

Go to the gym
Some gaps, but I did not too badly.

Compose a piece of music
Not at all. Maybe this year.

Learn a new language
I learned a basic amount of sign, although I'm nowhere near fluent. I may continue to pursue it. I had reasons to resurrect my knowledge of Spanish, and occasionally Russian, but I'm looking at Italian as more likely...

Win a tournament
Nope. Entered a couple, did better than I've done in the past, but no victory yet.

Go on an exciting trip
The trip to Playa del Carmen was pretty exciting, complete with muy authentico experiences navigating a foreign culture, and hiking through rainy jungles to climb mighty Mayan temples.

Invent a game
I had a sort of vague general idea, and never really developed it.

Save the world, a little
I did nothing really significant here. Why does saving the world seem to take effort?

Make someone speechless with kindness
I think I actually did that once or twice, and even if they weren't literally speechless I fulfilled the spirit of the goal.

Don't make anyone cry
For the bulk of the year, did fine (as far as I know). Failed dramatically at the end. In slight mitigation, this was a goal several people pointed out as potentially the wrong emphasis. Things happen, and people cry, but it's not always a personal failure that you took the action that caused it. Still, some unfortunate learning experiences were involved.

Teach something
I taught a class at Pennsic. It's a start, but I should do more.

5/10. Significantly the worst performance so far, possibly because I set concrete goals instead of vague generalities, so it's more clear when I didn't really follow them. Having it be a checklist rather than a set of guiding ideas is somewhat less satisfying, though. I will probably carry some of these over as things to do in the future, but they're not going on this year's list. In fact I don't like to carry goals over in these lists because it would tend to bind me too much to the past.

So, this year's goals. Hmm. I have a loose ToDo list elsewhere, but nothing in mind that really meets my desire for non-checklist items. I suppose, looking back, item #1 could be "Finish what you start", which is a tough goal in and of itself.

While I continue to ruminate, any ideas from the y'all on what I should do this year? It's kind of like that game everyone else played a month ago, but with an added tinge of self-improvement (unless you just want to tell me something interesting to do in the next 12 11 months. I'm interested in that as well). I auto-screen anonymous comments, but I don't log the IPs, so if there's something you'd rather say with anonymity, go ahead...