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Not a Goal Getter

Will I learn a valuable lesson from a year of failure? Probably not.

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Wendy
Dec 14, 2025
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Anyone who has known me for longer than about 7.5 minutes knows that I love a list.

I also love a planner, a spreadsheet, and a habit tracker… largely because they are just lists in different forms.

Every day, I make a work to-do list, a life to-do list, update my monthly habit tracker, update my yearly habit tracker, …

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