2011 Recap, 2012 Goals

At the start of 2011, I was on top of the world.  Well, the poker world at least.  My personal life was the complete shit show it still is today, but I had just come off an incredible year.  I wrote this post http://heynotilt.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010-recap-2011-goals.html and figured it'd be fun to look back.

Lets see how I did...

2011 goals:

[ ] Enjoy life.  Great success for the first 6 months of the year.  Tahoe was incredible, met some great people and traveled to some awesome places.  Last 6 months of the year, epic fail.  Grinded live poker and lived an overall miserable life.

[ ] Start working out regularly, put on 25 pounds by the end of the year  Well this was a pretty massive fail.  I probably worked out a good 5-6 times all year, including a 3 day stint of P90x.  I'm still the skinny Jewish kid taking all of your paper.

[ ] Eat healthier  I did pretty well on this and it's only getting better.  Getting into cooking has helped a lot.

[ ] Feel comfortable enough to snowboard on any mountain in the world after 3 months in Tahoe  While I wouldn't say I'm a world class boarder, or even really an expert, there's no mountain I wouldn't hit now.  I'm still a huge clown in the park and managed to mess up my knee pretty bad at the end of the year, but I've definitely got a new hobby.

[ ] Travel to 5 different countries  I'm cheating a bit here, as I only stopped in Copenhagen's airport for a few hours, but.... Bahamas, Spain, Italy, France, Denmark.  Oh, and a night in Monaco so I win.

[ ] Volunteer as often as possible  I'm a shitty human being.

[ ] Break par on the golf course Shot a -2, 70 at Trophy Club in Atlanta sometime in August I believe.  Haven't really been close since but I'm fairly happy with where my golf game is.  Looking forward to going pretty low in 2012.

[ ] Win another ALTA city championship if I come back to Atlanta  Check

Yep that's me Tebowing in the front right.

[ ] Find something I want to learn and potentially go back to school  No effing clue.  But grad/culinary/med school are potentially on the horizon.

[ ] Learn the basics of trading stocks, options, bonds I'm still a pretty big fish in the market.

[ ] $200k profit from poker Was certainly on pace, Black Friday didn't help too much.

[ ] Cash a $10k tourney (planning on playing at least 3) Cash the EPT Grand Final in Madrid for 35k euro I believe.  Busted PCA on day 2 and dusted off a nice stack in the WSOP Main day 2.

All in all it was a moderately successful year. I accomplished a few poker goals, and a few life goals, but there's still a lot to be desired.

So what's in store for this year...

[ ]  Figure out where I'm going in life

[ ]  Watch the start-up I invested in make me billions

[ ]  Cook one new dish per week 

[ ]  See 5 new countries

[ ]  Participate in an improveverywhere-esque mission  Srsly check it out

[ ]  Make some money at poker when I happen to play