I think it’s important to set goals in life. For me personally, writing my goals down makes it a bit harder for me to conveniently forget about them.

Personal Goals for 2009:

• Read at least 6 books. I read a lot, I read all day, that makes it harder for me to read for pleasure.
• Fish the Deschutes river.
• Take my kids on at least 2 multi-day camping trips. Yellowstone here we come.
• Run the Peterson Ridge Rumble. Updated 10/13/09: Done. Man that burned- 22 miles.
  
• Take the entire family on a real vacation.
• Make the time for more "date nights" with my fantastic wife.
• Weatherize our basement.
• Shoot more video of the kids.
• Expand on my existing skills as a photographer and publish more of my work. I’d like to get something published in JPG Magazine. Win a 5D Mark II. Updated 01/02/09: Unfortunately, JPG Magazine is shutting down on the 5th. Instead, I think I’ll focus on publishing more to Flickr and being more active in the Flickr community.
• Build a camping box for my UZJ100. Updated 10/13/09: Ended up building a box for my Engel refrigerator and on-board air system instead.
  
• Give some of my time (it’s precious to me) to a worthy cause. Eugene/Springfield Habit for Humanity is at the top of the list.

Career Goals for 2009:

• Work my ass off to make sure the company I work for pulls through this recession.
  

  NOTE: There’s a deeper list of business goals here that I can’t share for obvious confidentiality reasons.

• Continue developing my online professional identity by:
• blogging more here on this blog with a better focus on developing technologies and software development
• developing my LinkedIn membership
• building professional relationships with professionals in my field
• Continue to build on my education by taking advantage of continuing education programs.  For example, I attended Stanford’s Executive Education program in 2008.

Related posts:

1. TechCrunch Network – Quarterly Goals