Bill Barnett

Progress Report

OK, so…, not a stellar start. Since May 2009 here is what I have AND haven’t been able to accomplish:

Short Term Goals

• Double the BudgetSketch user base by August 2009
  Done but it took two month longer than expected. Of course the user base has since increased by more than 3,000% in a year. Not bad!
• Read a technical book by August 2009
  FAIL!
• Read a book for leisure by August 2009
  FAIL!
• Read “Body For Wife” by August 2009
  FAIL but with an excuse. The site isn’t complete and the book has not yet been published.
• Pay off a credit card, any credit card (does not include transferring any portion of its balance to another card/loan) by November 2009
  FAIL but another excuse. All cards are now managed via Trinity Debt Management whose services I highly recommend if you need them which I hope you do not.
• Loose 20lbs. by November 2009
  FAIL!
• Save 2 months cash reserve in my business account by November 2009
  FAIL!

Long Term Goals

• Work full-time for Finagilous LLC by December 2010
  This one is tracking fairly well but I am feeling less pressure to see Finagilous profitable since Gaslight Software is doing so well.
• Become debt free (except for the mortgage) by June 2014
  Unless I learn to but everything after this goal there is little chance that I’ll meet this goal. Some of these goals seem diametrically opposed to one another.
• Receive a clean bill of health from my physician by June 2011
  I am walking in training for the 2011 Walt Disney World Half Marathon in January 2011. I’ll be running in two 5K’s and a 10K prior to the half marathon. We’ll see.

Next Steps

I think I’ll reconsider some of my previous goals. The long term goals remain the same and my new short term goals (due by June 2010) are:

• Read one business development/technical book in each of the next three months (March, April & May)
• Read one leisure book in each of the next three months (March, April & May)
• Read the bash man page from end to end and create a bash tutorial
• Make emacs my everyday editor
• RUN a 5K by the end of June 2010

Clearly I’m off to a poor start but you can help… The next time you see me, give me a rough time for my poor performance!