GTD + EN: Yearly Review

Yearly review

Once a year you need to spend some time doing personal reflection and review. Here is my yearly review.

Review goals from last year
- Celebrate success
- Analyze areas for improvement
Set goals in each area of life
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Spiritual
- Social/Emotional
- Financial
- Career
- Family
Clean up Evernote
- Empty trash
- Empty Archive folder
- Do a notebook by notebook cleanup and delete old notes and unused / out of date notebooks
Review 30,000 - 50,000 ft level (GTD)
- 50,000 + feet: Life
- 40,000 feet: Three- to five-year visions
- 30,000 feet: One-to two-year goals
Discuss plans and goals with spouse
Add known events for the year into Google Calendar
- Schedule time for vacations
Clean out file cabinets at work and at home

I don't do this all at once. It is too big of task. I usually work on the goals and future life plans all during the month of December. Also, I break the cleaning up tasks into manageable chunks that I do between Christmas and New years. I generally have some time off during those days and start to feel restless after a few days of sitting around. Cleaning up is very cathartic.

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Bajio, Cafe Rio, or Costa Vida?

It is time for the showdown. Which one is best: Bajio, Cafe Rio, or Costa Vida? Or is it (as was my opinion) that they are all exactly the same?

I decided to do a taste test. Six people participated. Three were salad testers and three were burrito testers. None of the people who participated have any food judging experience although a couple of them have competed in cooking contests and have a couple of first place finishes to their name. Each couple went to a different restaurant and picked up a Sweet Pork Salad and an Steak Burrito to go. We ordered each salad with black beans and their creamy green dressing (whatever they happened to call it). The steak burritos were ordered enchilada style with black beans. Then we all met at a central location and judged each dish on the following:

Value Score = Weight (oz)/Cost($)
Overall Appeal (visual appeal, aroma, garnish)
Recipe (Cooking, ingredient combination, too moist or dry)
Taste (Flavor combination, Seasoning, Texture)

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Sea Arch at Cabo

We just returned from a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. Great Trip! I didn't take my good camera, so these pictures were all taken with a Canon A1100IS, then processed in Aperture.

This is the sea arch at the end of the Baja peninsula near Cabo San Lucas

Ponderize John 8:3-11 - A bag of stones

As I thought about the experience of the woman who was "taken in adultery", a thought came to my mind. What do we have in our personal bag with when we leave our homes each day? Did the scribes and Pharisees make sure they had a bag of stones with them at the ready just in case there was someone who needed their judgment and punishment? Do we figuratively fill our pouch with stones so we are ready to meet out our own self-righteous verdicts and penalties? Let's review the story:
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himsel…

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