And here we are in the 4th Quarter of 2010. I really hate the 3rd Quarter. It’s always the same, the whole world is on vacation so nothing gets done in July or August and then it’s a mad dash to close business in September. Many times I think it might be better just to take all of August off.
It’s also time to look at the goals I set myself for this year. I was pleasantly surprised that things are going well, with 74% completed. The key takeaways – things are going well on the Family front but I have not been able to visit my brother and his family yet this year. Unfortunately changing jobs means I have no vacation in Q4 so I may have to do a red-eye for a weekend if I want to make that goal.
Personal is going well having run the Falmouth Road Race and losing 20 lbs year to date. I need to get a gym membership going because soon it will be too cold to run outside for me. I had a hard time coming up with a “fun” goal for myself, but I did upgrade all of my media equipment so I’ll take that as completed.
Financial Goals are a bit behind, we’ve been burning through a lot of cash with the baby here and Carin working few hours. The good news is that the ReFi happens tomorrow and with my new job there’s a good chance we can up the savings for year end. An interesting thing here is how sometimes you are painted into a corner with these things – Carin can’t work more hours because if we had to use daycare that would eat a huge chunk of the income and I’d rather she take care of our son. I also have a goal for Charitable Donations, but now that becomes a classic numbers game – do I get closer to the goal by giving it to charity or hitting my savings goal? Both the numbers game and my heart are leaning towards charity so I guess you could say the goals are properly aligned.
On the Professional front landing the new job accomplishes most of what I wanted to do this year. I’ve been doing 4-5 year stints so I should be set here for a while. The only question mark here is what should happen next with Marketing Over Coffee. I don’t have the time to do more with it so I may look at outsourcing some stuff via a virtual assistant.
Also new this quarter has been motivation from The Ultimate Warrior. Yes, the man who hoisted a belt at Wrestlemania Ultimate Warrior. A co-worker of mine sent me a link to his blog, Warrior’s Machete, about a year ago and I have been hooked. This is a whole post in itself, which I promise I will put out there eventually. I was just glad to trade email with him, and he ended up sending me a lot of great advice. If you are looking for motivation you should sign up for his email list.
On to Q4!
5 replies on “Q3 Status Report”
How do you go about tracking these goals? Is it just a recap or do you have fancy shmacy software to help you? Also, does this mean that those of us whom have bough stock in John Wall LLC will see a dividend this quarter? 🙂
Hey, great question. I use MindManager by MindJet
It’s funny I got it for free at Gnomedex about 5 years ago, Rob Walch of Wizzard Media won it when it was raffled off but he didn’t own a PC so he couldn’t use it and gave it to me. It’s fantastic.
Unfortunately, unless the savings goal gets hit (unlikely) there will be no dividend, but your support is appreciated!
For a gym, check out the Sheraton Framingham on Route 9. They’ve got a pretty nice fitness center, weight room, and a killer indoor lap pool. I’ve had a membership for a few months and use it twice a week. Think it’s about $95/month and well worth it to me, easy to get to.
Thanks, but that’s a better ride for you than me. I might check out the new Gold’s Gym going in not far from the Dunks, I could workout before coffee!
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