New Years Resolutions for 2017 and 2016 Review

It’s that time of year again, time to set forth upon the new year and cast my hopes and dreams for 2017. It is also time to reflect on how I did in 2016. And, after reviewing 2016’s resolutions, I can say this year is going to be more focused; I am not going to be as ambitious with my resolutions as I was last year. So, with that, let’s see my 2017 resolutions…

My 2017 Resolutions

• Restart my efforts in blogging. Would really like to get 12+ posts out this year (1 a month).
• Speak at a national tech conference.
• Start to learn Go.
• Restart my React.js/Express.js tutorial. Get 1,000 readers.
• Improve my photography and start publishing photos to somewhere else besides Instagram.

My 2016 Resolutions Results

Continue my forward progress on blogging. Would really like to get 12+ posts out this year (1 a month). – Well, I completely failed this goal.
Improve my photography and start publishing photos to somewhere else besides Instagram. – I think I took a lot of photos, but this website might not be the best for photography.
Become a contributor to a major open source project. – I need to bite the bullet here, but I just didn’t have the drive this year.
Start to learn C. – I do want to learn more about Computer Science, maybe C isn’t the right thing…
Speak at a national tech conference. – Unfortunately, didn’t have a chance to do this… moving it to 2017 Resolutions.
Continue to give talks at my local meetups (I have a goal of 6 talks). – I ended up giving five talks to meetups around DC, and a few internally at TrackMaven. This was a solid win in my books.
Continue & Complete my React.js tutorial
Participate and complete the 2016 NaNoWriMo. – Ugg, who has the time for this? Still would love to attempt to accomplish this, but it’s so hard to dedicate any time to.
Finish 12 audio books. – Audio books are absolutely great!
Become better at the game of Magic the Gathering. – Practice makes perfect, and luckily I am getting a lot more practice in of late.
Lose weight. – This is always going to be a struggle for me, but I feel like I am heading in the right direction.
Beat my mother in a 5k. – Unfortunately, my mother can still out-run me. I hate running, but would have loved to see this goal happen.
Ride the Seagull Century. – This one really just slipped my mind. I need to do better to make sure I am on the right track for goals in 2017.

Conclusion

Well, 4 out of 15 goals completed. That’s terrible. To be honest with everyone, I completely forgot about this list and my goals for 2016. This is a huge problem, so for 2017, we are cutting it back, way back! Sure, I am not thrilled with my performance for 2016, but you have to roll with the punches. To 2017!