In this comment I set myself four goals. Here is a short update:

I'm teaching myself Java. My goal is to complete an app for analyzing raw genotypic data from personal genomics services (like 23andme) by summer 2012.

I'm currently 17% done working my way through Introduction to JAVA Programming, by Y. Daniel Liang.

I'm training 6 days a week to score 300 points on the USMC PFT (I have no intention of joining the military, I simply think it is a good goal in terms of overall physical fitness). I am increasing my running speed at a rate that is 75% slower than my previous attempt (at which I accumulated several injuries that prevented me from going to the gym for over 5 months). If I don't get injured again, then I expect to reach this goal by 9/2012.

I'm have been running 3.15 miles in 30 minutes and performing 13 pull-ups for the last 4 days.

I'm trying to diminish the amount of folk activism I engage in. I tried going cold turkey once before, but failed after only 3 weeks. This time, I flip a coin every time I notice myself about to start. I only allow myself to continue if it lands tails up. So far, so good.

Since using a randomizer I am fairly sure that I have decreased my folk activism by greater than 50% (although I could be merely deceiving myself by subconsciously creating more opportunities to engage in folk activism and then doing so only half of the time).

This project is none of the Internet's business.

I have been (unexpectedly) succeeding at achieving this goal, but don't know why. Perhaps it is just a fluke?