Am I a failure? Certainly not. While I will admit that a small part of me is disappointed that I didn't pull off a miracle, I also know that even the process of writing down goals (and accomplishing a few of them) can be enough.
Of the 30 goals, I completed 10 (all of which you can read in my previous blog posts). Here's what's left (maybe I should re-title the list to "30 while 30"):
- Read all of Shakespeare's plays. (In the past year, I read six new plays. That brings my total to 20 of 37 plays.)
- Read the entire Bible.
- See a drive-in movie.
- Watch The Godfather movies.
- Ride a horse or pony.
- Change a baby's diaper.
- Go camping in a tent.
- Get a caricature picture drawn of myself.
- Get a spray tan.
- Make an entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch.
- Write a one-act play and submit it to local theaters. (Note: I started a draft of a play, and almost finished it, before I thought it too cliched and maudlin. Creative writing, when you're rusty, is hard!)
- Learn to play chess.
- Learn to parallel park (again).
- Bake my own bread (using yeast).
- Routinely back up all computer files.
- Learn to sew.
- See an opera. (I have tickets for March 17! Progress!)
- See a ballet performance.
- Take a photography class.
- Consolidate all 401K plans and open a new one.