Update

Goals
Blog Goal: Post once a week
Progress: Back on track
Plan: Keep doing what I'm doing

1) Read at least 6 books for fun (i.e. no business books)
Progress: Ok, I like the Star Trek:Titan paperbacks, but found out no new ones are coming out until October. So I'm going to revisit some I read in high school/college and see how they look to me now.
Plan: First two are The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, both by Herman Wouk. They are set in WWII. I read these as a quick way to get Accelerated Reader point in HS, but I got so much more out of them then. Be interested to see how they speak to me now.

2) Read one business related book a month
Progress: Reading Business by the Book by Larry Burkett
Plan: Read and Review

3) Read at least 6 spiritual/personal growth books
Progress: Finished Boundaries by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend (see S/PG Reviews). Reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge
Plan: Already identified the next book.

4) Complete one video game (there are video games that do have an end, I've just never actually finished one before. I got two for Christmas that are that way, so I am going to finish one of them)
Progress: Only played NCAA BB 2010 by EA. Not really an end to that one, but I'm a huge college BB fan (insert Stacy groan here).
Plan: Play one level and save, or just remove this and let it be fun that it should be.

5) Plan 6 dates with my wife (one every other month - she has the other six)
Progress: Called my ticket guy, he still hasn't gotten back. Not going to get the sitter unless there is a definite date.
Plan: Call about tickets again.

6) Becoming healthier
Progress: Going to look at the gym at work today.
Plan: Begin to look starting a regiment next week.

7) Start drafting a book (yes, I want to write a book)
Progress: I have some ideas on characters and plot, but they are all in my head.
Plan: Put pen to paper and write an outline of characters, plot, and start to put a overall "story board" together by the end of February.

8) Payoff all debt with the exception of my student loans (which are still too large at this point to tackle in a year), and our largest two credit cards.
Progress: Feb. budget looks like we are going to knock out some big chunks. A couple more months like this and number 9 can really get going.
Plan: Keep the focus and don't let our budget killers (going out to eat, impulse buys) derail our goal.

9) Start a christmas club account for christmas 2010 so that it isn't a financial burden this year.
Progress: Didn't start because we were able to budget to fully take care of some of our outstanding debts
Plan: Suspend for Feb., Mar., Apr. If we can continue in Mar. & Apr. with our budget like we are in Feb., then we can breathe a little easier when we do this.

10) Apply for (and hopefully take) the Professional Engineers exam in October.
Progress: None
Plan: Still discussing and thinking.

11) Become more organized.
Progress: We have a budget that I think we can actually meet this time. There are still some bills out there, but we didn't create them all in one pay period, we're not going to get them all paid in one pay period.
Plan: Work on the garage this weekend (and maybe the truck too)
Mini-Goal - Set up any automatic payments possible to make sure stuff is paid on time.

12) Post progress on each of these on the blog
Progress: Well this is an update
Plan: Keep up the good work (nice to end on a high note)