Report Card 2011

Goals for 2011.

Social

Make One Person As Happy As Possible (Besides Myself)

**Grade: A+

Visit with the Family at least once (likely to be the Family Reunion)

**Grade: A+

Spend Quality Time with Friends at least Twice a Month


**Grade: A+

Do a Good Turn Monthly

**Grade: A+

Initiate Social Activities at least once a Quarter (Group Dates do not count for this)

**Grade: A+

Career (AKA "The 4th Life")

Gain a Stable Permanent Job I Like To Do That Pays Well

**Grade: C (A for Effort, F for results)

Set up a consulting business for side Project Management Work

**Grade: A+ (Paperwork laid down, Decided to implement in January due to the creation of Emergency Documentation)

Continue Project Chrysalis with Mythic Imagination Institute

**Grade: B+ (I am no longer in charge of Project Chrysalis but I am doing Project Peabody for them and its going gangbusters)

Take the PRP in June 2011

**Grade: F (Deferred to 2012 for more actual rather than contrived experience)

3rd Life

My Project: Project Dance Of Joy (Film)

**Grade: A+ (Re: As cover for party.....heheheheheh...I love it when a plan comes together.)

**Grade: F (But on the other hand, I no longer have any interest in doing this film)

Affiliated Projects: Sentinel Pi Project Management and Writing

**Grade: N/A (Sentinel is no longer a part of my life.)

Affiliated Projects: Sentinel 4.0 Project Management and Writing

**Grade: N/A (Sentinel is no longer a part of my life.)

Affiliated Projects: Sentinel Podcast

**Grade: N/A (Sentinel is no longer a part of my life.)

Learn To Edit

**Grade: A+

Finish Editing Dueling Morons

**Grade: A+ (Somehow I managed to make this come together)

2nd Life

Write 75000 words

Grade: A+

Decide if I like the 5th novel by the 15th of Jan. If not start another by Feb 1. If not then 5 Short Stories + 1 Feature Length Film

**Grade: A+

Finish the Graphic Novel (Est 5000 more words)

**Grade: A+ Finished. This project is on hold because the artist has a project of her own that takes priority.

Affiliated Project: Maintain at least 90% post rate on Nerdgasm

**Grade: A (Whilst participating in Nerdgasm, my posts were right on track)

Help at least 3 people with their writing, either to start or to help them edit.

**Grade: A+ (Albeit only one of the original 3 I had in mind was one of the three I actually helped)

1rst Life - Retired.

Publish T7 Project (Now mostly done.)

**Grade: F (I just ran out of steam on this, but it was an A as a life lesson, because sometimes it is wiser to just walk away from something)

Physical

Get at least 3 more belts in Karate
**A+

Decide then: Either 2 (5 total) belts in Karate OR Start a New Martial Arts OR Start Yoga

**Grade: Incomplete (Injury + Unemployment made this impossible to complete. I will be able to do yoga in 2012 however…)

Continue Weight Training OR Start Cross Training OR Start Free Weights

**Grade: B

Cardio 2 additional times per week

**Grade: B

Mental

Read 12 Non Fiction Books

**Grade: A- (10 of 12, working on 2 more.)

Read 12 Non Sci Fi/Fantasy Fiction (at least 2 of which should be classics)

**Grade: A-

Read 12 Sci Fi/Fantasy Fiction

**Grade: A+

Do Something to improve my creativity

**Grade: A+ (Pushpush + Write Club + Helping others)

Learn a New Skill

**Grade: A (This was originally meant to be cooking or something similar, but ended up being other more hard to define social and spiritual skills which I still feel qualifies)

Spiritual

Read at least one major religious text of a religion that is not my own that I have not read before.

**Grade: B+

Meditate/Pray at least 3 times a week

**Grade: A+

Emotional
Be More Generous

**Grade: A+
Be More Kind

**Grade: A+

Stop Talking about Dark Things

**Grade: B

Withdraw From Politics as Much as Reasonably Possible

**Grade: C

Incidental

*Go to Gencon OR San Diego Comicon OR World Con OR Dragon Con

**Grade: A+
Go on at least 6 'weekend' trips, ideally at least one per month.

**Grade: A+

*Go to NYC for at least 3 days (will count as one of the above trips)

**Grade: D (Double Unemployment prevented this, on the other hand I had the chance to go to OWS in its early days and did not go so I still count it a low grade)

*Make CONCRETE plans to go to France in 2012 (or 2011 if realistically possible)

**Grade: F (Double Unemployment excuses, but does not change the failure in this category. I may still go in 2012, but 2013 is looking more likely)

*Spend at least 20 hours at the range improving either pistol OR rifle OR shot gun skills.

**Grade: F.

*Obtain the Following: A decent couch, a gaming console of some kind (likely a Wii), 10 DVD's for my permanent collection, a piece of original art and something to advance one of my other goals in a meaningful way.

**Grade: A+

*Do at least one major good deed entirely anonymously. (Besides acknowledging completion of the goal in the assessment)

**Grade: A+

*Finish the Graphic Novel script and work with Liz to edit as needed.

**Grade: A+

*Finish the 4th Novel with Ken and help him market it as needed.

**Grade: A+ (Even if this does seem now dead, we finished it and I did some marketing)

Life Goals - "At some point"
1. See the Louvre.
**Keep. Slated 2012-2013.

2. Travel around the world on a one way trip. Japan, Australia, India, Egypt, London, Italy and Hawaii.
** Goal to see all by 2017.

3. Learn a martial art.
**Done

4. Competitively enter a fencing competition.
**Bucketed. I’m no longer really that thrilled about this goal.

5. Assemble a band for a tour based on music written by me.

6. Start a successful business.

"Start" in 2011-2012. "Success" is determined in this case by an operating profit of 400% invested capital or $10000. 2011-2015. Otherwise 'failure' and goal removed from dock.
**Grade: A- Started, but not really started at a full level.

7. Learn a musical instrument.

8. Sculpt something memorable.

9. Create or help create a graphic novel.
**Completed.

10. Own a plane, sailboat, taught or ultralight and learn to pilot/sail it.

11. Write seven novels.
**4 of 7 done.

13. Go on a cruise.
**2012.

14. Organize a convention on SOMETHING.

16. Build a house (not necessarily my own.)

17. Own my own home (all own, no mortgage)

18. Have a room with a secret passage

23. Be in a flash mob dance number.

26. Live the fifth life (who knows what that is)
**Grade: A+ (Started.)

27. Ditto the sixth.
**Grade: A+ (Started)

28. Ditto the seventh.
**Kept in reserve until 2027.
47. Finish 7 films. (3 out of 7 completed).
**Reshoot of Dueling Morons does not count as another completed film.

If the right door opens....(ie interesting goals that either depend on another person or a significant amount of wealth that may never happen but that I want to write down)

29. Marry the Right Person.

30. Establish a business empire dedicated to a not for profit foundation.

31. Visit (but do not live in) Space.

32. Buy my own island.

35. Create a functional and profitable news network that actually produces what is independent.

36. Create an institution to focus on pure research.

38. "" Neurological regeneration.

39. Paid Angel agents to quietly and anonymously do good.

40. Create a series of libraries (10) dedicate to principles original to libraries. Secular sanctuaries and temples to knowledge.

43. Breed dogs to live twice as long
**Strangely some people are surprisingly responsive to this. This might move to more realistic within 3-4 years when/if I own a house.

44. Create 3 patents.

45. Own and that is entirely self-sufficient w. energy, food and other items.

46. Become a Father.