Looking forward to 2009

2008 has been quite an interesting year, from leaving Google to starting a new company, but I definitely didn't accomplish a lot of the things that I set out to do. Starting a company has been an incredible and challenging experience, but I've missed out on a lot of my personal goals. So, I thought that, this year, I'd publish my goals in a public way, which will hopefully motivate me to keep more than 10% of them.

So, here's what I'd like to accomplish in 2009, in no particular order (well, scattered like my brain):

• Travel internationally at least twice
• Take at least 3 vacations that don't involve travelling home or going to weddings
• Blog at least once a week for the entire year
• Launch a new website around a biz idea I have
• Buy a house
• Start reading again; it's sad when I think about the last real book I've read
• Buy a new road bike
• Break 90 in an 18-hole round
• Speak on 2 panels
• Grow out my hair
• Be better about staying in touch with people
• Hike Half Dome
• Build a better Howcast
• Start writing code again
• Read the newspaper
• Start investing again
• Less ESPN, More CNN

I'm certainly looking forward to the suckyness that is 2008 to have passed. Here's to a better year.