2008 Quarter 1 Objectives and Metrics: Big Review Edition! · 04/03/2008 09:53 PM

Remember those objectives I set in January? Neither do I, but it’s time to review them anyway. Let’s see how I did over the past three months.

Improve my handling of money by establishing a permanent, baseline saving habit (Score: 0.49; Mean of following scores.)

• Restore savings account to end-of-quarter 3 2007 status (Score: 0.0; Never did it, even though I had the money in my checking account. How stupid.)
• Save 15% of all Q1 2008 income in long-term savings account (Score: 0.68; Actually saved 10.27% of income.)
• Save 10% of all Q1 2008 income in short-term, objective-based accounts: (Score :0.78; Actually saved 7.87% of income.)
  • Christmas 2008 Savings
  • Web hosting and domain name registration 2008 savings

I actually did pretty well here. As I was going along, I didn’t think I was doing that well, but I managed to get fairly close on both metrics. My money situation is getting a little better, so I should be able to look at this a bit more aggressively for the current quarter.

Improve my self-evaluation methods by establishing a permanent, baseline self-tracking habit (Score: 0.90; Mean of following scores.)

• Record pre-planned tasks and routine information for a minimum of 65 days (Score:0.88; Logged 57 days.)
• Complete a day log for a minimum of 65 days (Score: 0.91; Logged 59 days.)

I did a great job here. I really should have been more aggressive.

Improve my sleep and punctuality characteristics (Score: 1.0; I successfully generated useful data. This goal was not sufficiently well described.)

• Record the number of hours I sleep each night (6.5 hours per night)
• Record the number of times I get out of bed and stay out of bed with less than 45 minutes before the day’s first engagement (50 times)
• Record the number of times I arrive to work late (28 times)
• Record the number of times I arrive to class late (7 times)

This was the problem goal, even though I gave myself the full 1.0. This goal didn’t really ask anything of me. There wasn’t really a challenge, just a bit of data collection. However, that was useful: the current quarter is pretty aggressive based on this data.

My final score turned out to be an 0.80, which is just slightly higher than I think I should be hitting, if these are going to be stretch goals. I’m pleased with the improvement of the quarter and it has informed my decisions for Q2. Q2’s goals are coming monday.

1. NERD!

   ...also, it is way past Monday.

   — TheGirl    04/09/2008 12:34 PM    #

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