It's Halftime in 2010

On the recommendation of a friend I recently got a goalbook. What is that you ask?

Well, it's just a word I made up to describe a small notebook to keep track of my goals. I've tried to keep track of my goals before, many times, in fact it is something that I consider very important and I am always trying to discover the best way to track goals and develop better time management. Over the years I've tried writing in an a4 pad, a small notebook, on my phone, in macjournal, in iCal, using producteev.com and rememberthemilk.com. Has anyone else had a similar experience? None of the above mentioned worked because I would always either forget to write something down or fail to review it in time to complete a goal. So why does my new goalbook work? The simple answer is because it's incredible small and handy, you might say so yours phone, which is true, but I use my phone for so many other things that I often simply forgot to check my to do lists. But with my goalbook, it is always just in my pocket so I can add a goal quickly and I'm also very aware of my goals due to its physical presence and the fact the only reason it's in my pocket is to track goals, unlike phone.

So I am crediting my next blogpost thanks to goalbook! Also the goalbook cost 50 cents. One of the first goals I wrote in my goal book was to review my 2010 goals, which were posted on this blog. We're almost half way though the year, and amazingly despite all my work on my blog, or maybe because of it, I never reviewed my New Years Resolution/2010 goals until just this week when I put it on my To Do List. I had honestly forgotten much of my goals, but to my delight was well on my way to accomplishing many of them, so this post will now analyse each goal and it's progress to date.

1. Post at least one new Blog Post per week

2. Read a book 5 nights a week

3. Summarise key points from each book

4. Complete Toastmasters Competent Communicator Manual

5. Study a foreign language

6. Have a letter printed in the Irish Times newspaper

7. Conduct the role of Toastmaster at at Toastmasters meeting

8. Have read at least 15 books by years end

9. Invest in 2 companies

10. Launch my new website venture

11. Create new look for blog

12. Triple total number of blog readers for 2009

1. Nope, not even close, disappointed at myself

2. +Amazingly (at least I think it is) yes, I have read consistently in 2010 strangely for me, most of them were about war

3. Nope, but in defence a lot of books not that relevant for this blog (thankfully!)

4. +Well on my way, doing speech number 6 in 2 weeks and that doesn't include my competition entry speech

5. Damn! my friend started spanish classes in January, I was meant to join but didn't, totally forgot about this

6. Nope but have sent three

7. +Boom! done and dusted, great experience going to do again

8.+ On track for this, so far this year I've read "One Bullet Away", "Band of Brothers" "Generation Kill" How to Win Friends & Influence People" "10 Rules For Revolutionaries" "The Innovators Solution" "Dream On"

9. No but more annoyingly haven't done the sufficient research

10. + Done & dusted, although a different one to the one I planned when written

11.+ Mission Accomplished, hope readers enjoy it as much as me, such an improvement imho

12.+ Very possible, getting terrific response on StumbleUpon

Result 7/12 = 58% success rate in Goal Completion

I'm half way through the year and I have over half of my goals either accomplished or on track, so I am pretty pleased with that, especially since I haven't actively been tracking them. However that will change now thanks to my goalbook so I am confident I can have all 12 come next Christmas! Go me!