2011 Goal Update (December)

This is my twelfth monthly report on how I’m doing with my goals for 2011:

Build a dining room table. Build a piano keyboard desk. Build something. I know what I want to build. I have the plans. I have the shopping list. But, sadly, I didn’t have/take the time to do this.
Launch twelve new websites. I failed. My December website was bigger than I could finish in a month. Okay that isn’t true, I just got lazy. But I did redesign Corban Works from scratch, so that is practically an entirely new site. And I redesigned the Fake Name Generator mobile site. So I kept busy at least.

I’ve also been working on a few goals that I didn’t originally blog about:

Goals I’ve accomplished this year:

Earn as much from my side business as I was earning from my day job. I hit this goal in October. December earnings were absurdly high. I hit my 2012 goal, but I don’t think it’ll happen again in January.
Go back to college. I’ve enrolled in a distance learning program with BYU-Idaho. I got A’s in both of my classes. Yay!
Max out my 401k and Roth IRA contributions. The 401k and Roth IRAs are maxed out. Yay!
Quit my day job. I’m basically retired. I play with my daughter, work on hobbies, and sleep all day. Its a pretty good life.
Become a dad. I’m a dad! Yay! My daughter Anna was born in late May.
Publish my first book. I’ve published my first book (paperback, Kindle, and Nook). Took me a couple years, and I ~~already found 2 typos (grr!)~~ fixed the typos, but at least it is finally in print.
Paid my taxes. I make money from a lot of places which makes my taxes really complicated, so getting this finished was awesome. I also started paying quarterly taxes because my self-employed income has gotten pretty high. It is uber painful to write a big check every couple months to the IRS, but oh well, that is the cost of making money..
Get out of debt. We’ve paid off the last of Becca’s student loans which means we are now debt free! Yay!