Two things have happened recently that have caused me to look at why I do what I do. The first is something I like to do every year in December: examine my goals for the year to see which ones I've fully accomplished, which ones I've partially accomplished, and which ones I've not accomplished. This is not done to give myself an "attaboy" for the things I've done and a acknowledgement of failure for those things unaccomplished. Rather, it's just a way to look toward the next year: I accomplished goal X: Does this thread in my life end or do I need to have further goals that build on this? I partially accomplished goal Y: What did I do correctly and incorrectly in my attempt to achieve