On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did I perform towards my goals? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my Getting Things Done system and Zen to Done habits?
Blog performance
This week I hardly wrote on the blog. This had to do with the aftermath of the home invasion from last weekend and preparations for the last weekend of NLP, which included the testing.
Despite the lack of articles, there are nice stats for this week. RSS subscribers are still rising, but to get to my goal something miraculous needs to happen.
| Statistics week 50 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Average RSS subscribers: | 504 | +11 |
| Average daily visitors: | 211 | -14 |
| Technorati Authority: | 251 | +13 |
Progress towards goals
Some adjustments to the goals this week, as I described in the Goal Setting Mistakes series. I dropped one goal, and a total of 4 have been accomplished now. I will clear them of the list by the end of the year.
I’m proud to say I even accomplished a goal TODAY! This weekend was the last weekend of my training to be a NLP Practitioner. Today we had the testing, in which we had to demonstrate what we had learned. And I passed 
So as of today, I am a certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. And proud of it!
| Material State | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Garden redone by 12-2007 | ACCOMPLISHED, as I wrote in my article on Moving Targets, this goal is done. There’s some more work to do, but it’s not part of the original goal. |
| 2. | 2nd floor redone by 02-2007 | No progress this week. I spent it on security around the house. |
| 3. | €500 passive income by 03-2008 | No progress. |
| Active State | ||
| 4. | NLP Practitioner certification by 12-2007 | ACCOMPLISHED!! As of today, I am a certified NLP Practitioner! Yeah! |
| 5. | 2500 subscribers by 12-2007 | Goal 20% done…15 days remaining |
| 6. | Given first training as trainer by 03-2008 | No progress. |
| Social State | ||
| 7. | Rising early | ACCOMPLISHED |
| 8. | Be in contact with friends and family 4 days a week | Yep! 4 weeks in a row now. |
| Emotional State | ||
| 9. | Review mission and goals weekly | ACCOMPLISHED |
| 10. | Quarterly retreat | Starts January 2008 |
| Physical State | ||
| 11. | Workout 5 days a week | This goal has been dropped. It needs to be replaced by a real goal, as I described in Not Quantifying Enough |
| 12. | Run half a marathon in 10-2008 | No progress. |
Zen to Done / Getting Things Done - weekly review
To be short: no progress here.
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You can be an Original too!
Frank Hilliard
Sun 2007.12.16
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Best regards,
Frank Hilliard
Stephan
Mon 2007.12.17
Gefeliciteerd! Ik hoop dat je er veel plezier van hebt.
Neko Case
Mon 2007.12.17
You are making a great progress in achieving your goals. May be your NLP is helping.
Albert | UrbanMonk.Net
Tue 2007.12.18
I read somewhere that 99% of blogs never reach 500, and if you do, then you’re something right
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Albert | UrbanMonk.Net
Modern personal development, entwined with ancient spirituality.
Lodewijkvdb
Wed 2007.12.19
Thanks all! Getting certified was very satisfying. And I definitely think NLP is helping me Neko!
Hmm, so I’m part of a 1% minority? Cool! Thanks for your support Albert