1 down, 4 to go...

"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own." --Mark Victor Hansen

Last year about this time I set goals for my life that I wished to accomplish in the next 5 years. In May of last year, I finally put them on paper (or weblog) as a way to "make them real" and to keep track of them. Now that a year has gone by, I wanted to see what type of progress I've made on those goals... For those that missed the original post, Click here

-Goal #1 was to obtain my master's degree; as of September 1st, 2009, I was accepted and became officially enrolled into the University of Nebraska's Distance Learning Masters of Physician Assistant Program. So goal 1, ...progress made!

-Goal #2 was to become an active member of both my church community as well as my residential community.; church community - check! I joined the health ministry, though it seems nothing much has come of it thus far :-/... I'm still working on it! I've done some little things here and there that's really hard to quantitate, so its coming along. The community thing however -- a no go! But hey, I have 4 more years right?!

-Goal #3 was to establish a regular exercise regimen and healthy lifestyle; As my twitter friends would say, #fail. I'm so trying. I have the desire and watching the Biggest Loser has encouraged me a lot, but finding the time with my 12hr work days is difficult. I'll try harder!

-Goal #4 was to buy my own house; this one I sorta put on hold for now... still wanna do it, but wanna do it differently than before... let's just leave it at that for now. Maybe I'll explain later.

-Goal #5 was the most ambitious, to pay off all my undergraduate and graduate/professional school loans; I knew this was a big undertaking when I first thought of it, but didn't realize how difficult it would be. Plus, no one counted on the recession to have such drastic and lasting effects. However, when I totaled up the numbers, I did reduce the owed amount by 8.61%! Not the 20% I'd hope for, but not too shabby. Oh, and I did pay off and get the title to my car... so that makes up the other missing percentage in my book!

If I had to grade myself on progress so far, I'd give me a C+. (We are our toughest critic!) ...What grade would you give me?