Review Of 2024 Goals
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It’s time to do a review of 2024 goals, to see how much I achieved in the year.
And did I really set 40 goals? Yikes. Must set less goals in 2025 (so probably will set 45).
Being Healthy
Do 3 forms of exercise that are not walking. The only thing I did was ballroom dancing (with a man…lol) at a dance class the night before a wedding.
33% achieved.
Get some data on my health. Well I did some health survey thing, and nothing negative came back from it – and my cholesterol is now normal, or at least was in March. Other things I should have done though…
33% achieved.
Reduce blood pressure. I actually got this down a fair bit, but it crept back up as my weight crept back up and I’m too scared to test again.
20% achieved – it definitely is a bit lower.
11 week detox. All good! Well, and boring.
100% achieved.
6 other weekends without drinking. I changed this target to be 18 weekend days without drinking, apart from my detox. I did 3 days. I really do like beer.
17% achieved.
Only eat cake/chocolate on 44 days. Failed this by October. So, of course, I’ve eaten cake and chocolate most days since then…I guess I did 100 days but there was no point in counting any more.
0% achieved.
Reduce Haribo consumption. Got bored of this, and it won’t be coming back in 2025.
0% achieved.
Looking Sexy
Lose 10kg. I’d lost 7kg by the end of my detox, but guess what? It crept back on as the year went on. I lost 1kg in the end.
10% achieved.
Have more teeth. Technically I have less teeth, but I’ve achieved as much as I can as I need to wait 6 months until I can have more teeth (well…3 months now at the time of writing).
100% achieved.
Working Hard
Have 3 interviews. I quickly realised this is a pain in the ass – the engineering job market is tough, so why put the effort into getting an interview just to practice? I sacked this off.
0% achieved.
New Product. Yes! I moved to a new team, built a new product and learned some new skills along the way too. Boom!
100% achieved,
Writing Code
Finish Re-building World Of Winfield. Yep, it’s done and you are reading it. Congratulations on being the only person to ever visit this site.
100% achieved.
Try new JS/CSS stuff in my projects. Well, I did a few things but mostly I stuck to reading about new JS/CSS things.
50% achieved.
Build Something In Astro. I rebuilt Roast Dinners Around The World in Astro, it’s really nice for building the f/e of WordPress sites in. I had like a tiny bit to do come NYE, but finished on NYD.
99% achieved
Build Something In Svelte. Never had the time.
0% achieved.
Learning Stuff
Read 4 more books than I buy. Yep – completed, I actually read 6 books. My favourite was Der Klang Der Familie, which was about how the techno scene started in Berlin, closely followed by Croydonopolis.
100% achieved.
Read a book on investing. I bought a book by Benjamin Graham, who Warren Buffet rated highly. Some excellent advice – I’ve not quite finished it, but more or less.
93% achieved.
Do 30 Duolingo levels. Of course, Duolingo changed their course structure which makes this impossible to be sure of a certain percentage, but who cares. I’m getting better at Spanish…though still feel like I know a collection of sentences and grammar around tenses I’m still quite lost at.
61% achieved.
Ticking Things Off
Have nothing on my to-do list one day. Tick!
100% achieved.
Have 0 e-mails in my Inbox. Yep – I did this and have only 2024 e-mails in there now, and 0 unread. On top of e-mail for the first time in my life.
100% achieved.
Eating Food
Oldest 10 roasts. I did 6 of the oldest – the 4 oldest I didn’t do, one is beef (no teeth), one is sharing roasts only, one is £100+ and one is for Halloween only, but someone had a birthday then.
60% achieved.
2 roast dinners in other countries. I managed 3 countries! Switzerland, Hungary and Portugal.
100% achieved.
12 excellent (or think will be) restaurants. I went to 10 really excellent restaurants, including Tayyabs, Brat, Circole Populare, 50 Kale, Slowburn, Quo Vadis, Mother Mash, Whyte’s and Bar Kroketa. Not bad!
83% achieved.
10 oldest restaurants on my to-do list. Just one of them had been on there the longest.
10% achieved.
6 restaurants in Croydon. I only went to two restaurants – one was respectable, the other shit.
33% achieved.
Less than £90 food waste. Just £84.30 of food waste at home all year. Permission to spend my personal carbon credits on multiple more flights accepted.
100% achieved.
Have at least one £100 meal. Nope.
0% achieved.
Cook at least 150 different recipes. Just managed this – 152 recipes from cookbooks.
100% achieved.
Having Fun
Do London stuff once a week on average. I didn’t do as many interesting things (I’m not counting roasts/drinking) as previous years for some reason.
52% achieved
Pay top price for a theatre show. Nope.
0% achieved.
Get involved in Croydon stuff. Kind of done this – I’ve joined a meet-up group, “eat out in Croydon” and been out a few times with them (though mostly for drinks) and also went to some street theatre. I’m trying to do stuff here!
40% achieved.
Make friends in Croydon. Well I now know some people that I’d probably recognise in the street, but nobody I’d yet call a “friend”.
10% achieved.
Visit two friends that don’t live in Reading/London. Yep – went to Cambridge, Portugal and Somerset to see respective friends living there.
100% achieved.
Jolly On Holiday
4 different new countries. 3 new countries – Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Czechia. Maybe could have snuck a random eastern European country in during November but wasn’t really feeling it with the teeth situation.
75% achieved.
Closest un-visited country. Yep! Luxembourg done, albeit only for a day trip.
100% achieved.
Leave Europe once. Nope.
0% achieved.
Money, Money & Spending Money
Upgrade my tech. I bought a new monitor and a new keyboard – both excellent additions but my 8 year old PC struggles a bit with them.
50% achieved.
Complete bedroom. Yes – painted!
100% achieved
Buy a sofa, and stuff. I eventually managed a sofa and a microwave. Hmmm. I don’t even have a toaster yet. I do like beer too much.
33% achieved
Save £10,000 into stocks and shares. Smashed it, thanks only to my M&S share save scheme.
100% achieved.
Overall
Well I make that 57.26% achieved. BANGING.
Marginally up on 2023 which was 56.4%.
Maybe I can get to 58% when I do my review of 2025 goals.