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\"happy<\/a>Here we are. It’s New Year’s Eve (NYE) and 2012 is coming to a close.<\/p>\n

Last year, I decided I wanted to set some resolutions\/goals for myself.<\/a> I tried to make some SMART goals that were measurable and also not to ambitious.<\/p>\n

I’m rounding out the year with mix results.<\/p>\n

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Update my blog at least once a month…<\/h2>\n

Although updates were as usual sporadic at times, I think I did pretty well with this and was even able to try and cross-post blog updates that I wrote for our GSE Taiwan blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Read at least six professional books…<\/h2>\n

This was full of fail for me. I didn’t do well with reading and most of the books I’ve consumed in the last seven months have been baby or parenting related. Hopefully I can add more professional books to my reading list this year (or maybe I can get some audio books to listen to during late night feedings????)<\/p>\n

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Go to the gym more than twice a month…<\/h2>\n

This was another mixed results for me. Some months I was at the gym almost five times a week, but others like August and September, I didn’t make it through the door. While I was in Taiwan and Japan, I did enough walking to take care of any desire to go to the gym (including a fabulous walk through a bamboo forest that took the better part of an afternoon and I think we walked around 7 km?).<\/p>\n

Even with my waxing and waning devotion to the gym, I did accomplish something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I ran the Tely 10 this year!<\/a> Not only that, but I managed to do it in a time that was a lot better than any of my training – 1:53:39. And don’t forget, I was eight weeks pregnant at that time so there’s bragging rights in that… right?<\/p>\n

I’m also going to play the pregnancy card for the mixed results because during my first trimester I was so tired that I would have given away every cent I owned if told I HAD to go to the gym. My energy is starting to nosedive again, but I’m hoping to get to prenatal yoga classes at Shakti Yoga<\/a> at least once a week until Mini Middleton is here. And I definitely want to run the Tely 10 again.<\/p>\n

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Clean out my sock drawer…<\/h2>\n

Yes, yes, this was the low hanging fruit of my goals for 2012. I managed to take care of it, but now my sock drawer is starting to look a bit like last year. Perhaps this will becoming an ongoing annual goal…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Is there anything that 2012 brought to your life that was a game changer? Feel free to share the good, the bad, and the ugly.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll post my goals for 2013. Keeping it simple again this year, but planning to tackle the next 12 months with even more drive and determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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