Last Year, 2008
Well, there’s so many things to say about last year. It was a complicated year, to say the least. I think in many ways, my year parallels the Patriots.
Last year, they completed the 16-0 season, but failed to win the Superbowl, followed by an 11-5 season where they didn’t make the playoffs.
In many ways, that can sound bad because they didn’t accomplish their goals of the completed undefeated season, winning a Superbowl, or making the playoffs and another run at a Superbowl.
Looking at it that way, the Patriots had a bad year last year by failing to complete their goals.
But I don’t look at it that way.
This season, the 11-5 Patriots are somewhat remarkable. They drafted the rookie defensive player of the year. They brought in a back-up QB who turned out to be just fine. I can’t say how many other players went injured and yet they kept on trucking. They were behind in the division rankings almost the whole year. It was a difficult year which had a lot of success and yet it could still be looked at as a failure.
That’s about how my 2008 went. A lot happened. A lot of good. A lot of challenging things. In the end, I didn’t reach many of the goals I had planned for the year(finish a novel, get in shape, etc), but still, I had a lot of success. I have the new house. I travel much less. I have a great boss(who I was very iffy about for the first 6 months or so.). In general, I’m well set to go forward in 2009 and that’s really what you look for in a year - setting up the next year to be even better.
So, I think last year was a good year even though I didn’t meet a lot of my goals. How was yours?





