Goals: February 2008 Update

    This year seems to be flying by so far.  January is long gone and we're already almost a quarter of the way done with February.  I feel like if I turn my head for a second it'll be May and I'll already be done with my first year of college (not that I think that would be a bad thing).
    But such a fast moving year means I haven't been focusing on my goals for this year as much as I would have liked.  I have modified my goals based on how the year has been going so far, changing them from what they originally were at the beginning of the year.  Although I'm changing my goals, I don't consider it to be due to me being incapable of following through with them; rather I am broadening the scope and re-prioritizing what I want to accomplish this year.  So here's a recap of what I've done so far and what I still plan to do:

1) Become more sociable - I complained last year about not meeting enough people and not being involved in enough social activities at school.  I'm still not where I want to be yet, however I'm making progress.  I'm making new friends, playing piano in the pit for a student production of "Chicago", and I found out about a strategy game club that I want to check out this weekend.

2) Get in shape - Over the past year I've done a lot with this.  I'm not where I want to be quite yet and I didn't do anything in January to help me with this goal.  Last semester I'd visit the gym three times a week but the recent negative degree weather has made me reluctant to traveling across campus to get to the gym.  Hopefully February will be warmer.

3) Create a thriving photoblog - At the first of the year I said I wanted to create a photoblog that would receive 100 visitors per day by the end of the year.  I realized that this isn't something that I would actually want.  And keeping up with such a demand for photo updates would cause me to produce poor results, something that I also wouldn't want to do.  I rather just periodically update my flickr account when I take new photos.So instead I'm replacing this with the following goal.

4) Create a 'muse' - Recently I read Timothy Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek.  After reading this I've decided to try to start some kind of small, automated business related to photography.  I'm not sure exactly what yet (I'm still running through ideas) but I hope to have some solid product developed by the end of the summer and shipped by the end of the year.