It’s that time of the year when people think about the meaning of their lives, and what they would like to accomplish the next year.

I’ve always been a goal-setter — ever since I was a little kid. That doesn’t mean I reached the goals I set — far from it — but I did set lots of goals and actually reached some of them.

And one year I set a HUGE goal and reached it — a goal to improve more at the piano in one year than I had during the previous five years.

To read about the goal I set to improve at the piano in one year more than I had in the last five, click on “I dare you to improve more at the piano in 2008 than you have in the last five years”