2005 – 10 days left

I figured it’s not really necessary to wait for the last day of the year to evaluate my goals like I did in 2004. I can just do it now, since it’s also quite clear what the landscape looks like and not much is gonna change over the next 11 days.

As posted last year on this blog, here’s the evaluation of my resolution for 2005 (AI MMM style :).
#1: Finish University.
STATUS: done.
#2: Get a job, or at least being close to getting one by the end of the year
STATUS: done. Even though It’s a temp job, it’s still a source of income and got me moving. To be honest I considered this one to be an ambitious goal, and I’m very happy I made it.
#3: Keep and expand my networks however I can.
STATUS: done. All the contact I could have regained with friends, I did. And I got a whole bunch of new friends and contacts from the army, though this was not in my expectations in the beginning of the year. Lately there’s been a lot of reconnection with friends from the past whom I had lost contact with since I moved back to Greece and joined the army.
#4: Think a little less of my own happiness and a little more of other people's around me.
STATUS: this goal is not measurable, it’s more of an attitude which I somehow believe is a field where I improved as a person.

First time ever that I get a 4 out of 4. But how does the year feel? It feels a little bit like it didn’t exist at all. Don’t get me wrong, I am not too strict on myself. It’s just that though I have the army in my mind as an experience, I haven’t got it placed somewhere specifically in time. I still somehow believe that it’s last year when my AI term finished (though it was in 2003), just to give an example of what I mean.

So goalswise 2005 has been a “successful” year, but it somehow doesn’t feel like that. It feels like all that has been done has happened in the past 40 days only. And I still feel that there’s a lot more that could have been achieved during the year, though I can’t put it to words easily.

As I said before, 2006 definitely needs to be more ambitious. And a better year as a whole.