Re-evaluating my Life

Introduction:
The other day in the quiz night, Adel (3adoola) asked me about my todo list which I totally forgot about. I can't thank him enough for reminded me about a todo list which I wrote almost a year and a half ago.

The old list:
So, let's take a look and see how things went:

• I want to graduate from University, because I have been there for too long, soon, My mates will become my lecturers.
  Done
• Improve my spanish & go to Cervantes( Spanish cultural Center )
  My Spanish sucks now. I have to do something about it when I have time.
• Go to Spain in Summer
  Planned summer 2007
• get a digital Cam
  Done
• finish my website
  Done
• Learn C
  Didn't have time for it. I still want to do this maybe after a year from now
• Accomplish my secret open source project (PHP related, would take 2 years of work at least)
  Cancelled
• Shut down my current business and move on to the next big business I wanna start in no more than 3-4 years
  Done. Hopefully I will announce my new venture sometime around mid-late January
• retire by the age of 27 and start working on my crazy experemntal projects
  Rescheduled to 30
• Gain weight
  Done, still need more though
• Start playing basketball again.
  Haven't played any sport in such a long time
• Visit every country in Europe.
  I still need 10 years to do this, but I'm planning 3 new countries this year.
• Go hiking again in Wadi Al mujib
  Done, and also planning another hike next summer
• Write a PHP book in 2 years
  Almost there. What's even equally important is that I finished a technical review for one amazing Linux book. I will be writing about this very soon.
• Get certified, I only need a day or two to read the guide! I don't have the time to do that.
  No longer interested.

Evaluation:
I'm quite satisfied with what I was able to acheive in 2005 & 2006. I managed to focus on what I really want to do. This list doesn't sum 20% of the major acheivments in the past two years. I do know, just like any other human, that I could have acheived more. I will not stress myself, and blame myself for not acheiving more. I will learn from my mistakes and do things smarter in the future.

Future:Although it's tempting to write a new list for 2007, I'm going to hold my horses for very simple reasons:

• Most of my future goals revolve around work/business
• Although I'm an open person, most of the goals are not for sharing due to confidentiality issues.
• My two main areas of interest have almost stayed the same
• Improving my technical skills (especially software architecture)
• Managing IT the right way (I beleive people don't understand IT, the apply classical management to something that is not classical. I'm learning/researching alot about this issue)