2015 Goals

Happy New Year! With the changing of the calendar, instead of resolutions, as such, going to try to hit the following goals for 2015:

Complete a marathon.

Attend a spiritual retreat.

Post 100 blog posts between various properties.

Redesign brandonkraft.com to better showcase other properties (or roll them up, etc).

Reach 500 unique beers per Untappd.

Present at 3 conferences.

Take a disconnected weekend trip with Vanessa.

Every other month “Daddy Date” with each girl.

Increase bike usage via 50% or more of intraneighborhood trips.

I’m tracking these on a new Goals page and will be providing updates here. I’ve never declared personal annual goals before and, I admit, the process this year wasn’t far from throwing a handful of darts at the board. I tried to hit a mix of professional, personal, and family-related goals that address my physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being.

Goals are meant to be hard and while I hope to hit 100% in 2015, if I do complete them all, that only tells me that I was too easy on myself.

Do you have a regular process of personal goal setting? How do you keep yourself accountable?

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