2005 My Year in Review

Early, in 2005, I decided to buy a whiteboard to keep track of my personal goals for the year. I hung this whiteboard in my kitchen, and every quarter, wrote in new goals for myself. Here is a picture of the whiteboard: (Click to enlarge the picture)

Q1 2005:

• Write rough draft of Tarot (A horror script I was working on). I fell short of Q1 just barely though. I finished it on April 6th. It was 114 pages.
• Get a Green Belt in Six Sigma (this is job related, Continuous Improvement). Completed.
• Get a way cool honey. I thought about this, and after the rediculous long distance relationship I was in, I decided to take the year for myself and accomplish these personal goals before going out in trying the relationship thing again.
• Be Fabulous. I checked that off as soon as I wrote it ;)

Q2 2005

• Be Fabulous. Again, an easy task :)
• Go to Australia and have an excellent time. This was one of the high points of the year! What a great trip! Pics of highlights can be seen on my main site (www.fallenstar.com) in the trip section.
• Finish Final Draft of Tarot. It didn't happen in Q2. There were a few drafts that came after the first draft and before the final draft.
• Finish Studying for PMP (Project Management Professional Exam). This took up a lot of my time. I had to do this for my career (and wanted to for personal reasons). What a huge help it turned out to be. This took a lot of time away from anything else, including working on Tarot.
• Join some groups. Like I said, Studying for the PMP Exam took up a lot of time. I did however start going to Drag Queen Bingo! at Hamburger Mary's every Wednesday. So, I guess that counts. I have made friends there and am now known as a regular. :)

Q3 2005

• Be Fabulous. Start off the third quarter right!
• Pass PMP Exam. Ta-Da! I did it! I took the test and passed it in August! It was a great Birthday Present to myself.
  
• Finish Tarot. Again, I worked on another draft, but it wasn;t the final one.
• Start Book. I had this idea to write a book with my friend Sheldon and have him take pictures for it. It is a good idea. We started the outline for it.
• Finish rough outline for Void. This is a new script. I didn't finish the outline, but have about half of the beats done.
• Finish Website content. Lou had finished (for the most part) my site, and I filled it with all kinds of content. From writing words, to scanning pictures and uploading etc. www.fallenstar.com was opened to the public! My life was now online for the world to see. (Business cards and Postcards followed!)

Q4 2005

• Be Fabulous. Check!
• Finish Tarot (3rd Draft). Finally it is done and shelved!
• Send Tarot to agents. I didn;t get around to doing this. With working on the Halloween costume, preparations for Christmas and my job, time was short.
• Finish Project "K". I had this idea for an invention. I discussed it with my friend KD and she agreed to help. She got the material and was going to put it all toegther but she also ran out of time. We do plan on finishing it.
• Get patent on Project "K". We will do this after we finish the prototype next year.
• Finish rough outline for Void. When the mood hits ya, ya write. The mood didn't hit.
• Start book. No time because...
• BONUS - Get promotion at work! My Six Sigma Green Belt and my PMP paid off. I transitioned into a different department at work, Program Management. I finally left the tiring world of IT. More opportunity and more pay, gotta love it!
• BONUS - Visit back home. I went back hme for a 4 day visit in November. I had such a great time. My Mother had no idea I was coming! I got to see my family and my friend Barb and her new family. It was a great visit and when I returned to my home in Cali., I was a bit homesick.
  

And that is my year in review! Some goals I hit, and some I didn't. This wasn't everything I did in the year, just some major goals I wanted to hit. Which basically boiled down to three things:

1. A new Job.
2. A new work of expression (Tarot).
3. A way cool vacation on the otherside of the world.

I plan on continuing this goal thing as I can see the benefits of it! But next year, I'll be posting my goals at the beginning of each quarter instead of just at the end of the year.