February came along to toss molasses in my path and slow me down. I still made progress across many of my objectives, but not at January’s pace.
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Who with a fresh set of annual goals doesn’t go into January all fired up?
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Overall, though I didn’t accomplish everything I’d set out to do in 2021, I achieved most of it—though I missed completing two of my top objectives.
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If I lean in hard in December, I might manage to make it to my 2021 writing targets—or close to them.
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When it comes to October progress against important goals, I note solid movement on several professional fronts.
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Life came back to Lausanne in mid-September, when people returned from their summer vacations and school had reached full swing.
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Writing (or lack thereof), progress in French, and mental and physical expansion.
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I feel slightly disheartened that I haven’t done more than plan so far this year, given that I really thought I’d set realistic to even overly low goals for 2021.
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Achieving full vaccination lifted a lot of my easy excuses for postponing several goal-related activities, especially the ones I rarely consider intrinsically motivating.
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Here’s to full vaccination and antibody-empowerment by mid-June, after which some of the lagging goals can get a bit more attention.
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How our friends and our workouts change our minds and our bodies.
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I’ve struggled in the first quarter of this year with making progress on one of my creative goals.
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For most of my goal-setting years, I’ve easily accomplished my exercise objectives. Typically, I’ve even exceeded them.
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I had the sinking feeling all month that I’d already fallen grossly behind schedule across several fronts.
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Reviewing my goals progress in December had the same flavor as in previous years, though with the now-familiar 2020 kick of watching the gods laugh at my best-laid plans.
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I spent time over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend looking at my 2020 goals as a whole and thinking through, in rough-sketch form, my 2021 goals.
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I think it’s only fair to call it a seasonal theme if it happens three years in a row. Right?
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The activities and tasks I could have done, done differently, or done better always seem obvious when I identify them.
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