Medical: I'd love to take the WFR course. It's very doubtful that I'll get this done in 2014. Given how long the class is they'd have to offer it locally on evenings and/or weekends for me to consider it any time soon.

Communication: Gotta get my HF shack working, and preferably also mobile 2M rigs for both cars. We have HTs in each car now, which is better than nothing.

Wilderness survival: I could swing a bushcraft class if I could turn it into a fun camping trip for the family. I'll check into that.

Defensive: I spend more time, effort and money here than preparedness would dictate -- I have too much fun with this hobby to cut back . I've stepped up my pistol instruction side business and as a consequence I've been able to sign up for a two-day tactics class from a higher-level instructor. There's a second class in 2014 that I'd like to take; let's hope I can fill some more of my classes and be able to pay for it that way. I'd love to find time and money to resume martial arts training.

At home: I'm in pretty good shape here. In my mind, short-term emergencies are three days or less, medium term run from three days to two or so weeks, and long term is anything longer than that. We're well prepared for short and medium term emergencies and I've made a conscious decision to not spend a lot of effort on TEOTWAWKI scenarios.

Transportation: Both of our vehicles are older but very reliable. If things change financially I'd like to get back into a 4x4, but that's probably 2015 or 2016 for me.

Gear maintenance: I'm a fanatic; I have a designated Battery Charging Day every month, I unpack and repack our BOBs three or four times a year, and all of our FAKs are kept filled with expiring meds replaced. The cars are both maintained religiously -- if there's one prep that I think a lot of people miss that shouldn't, that's it. I'm a little behind on sharpening my EDC knife and that's it.

Body maintenance: Last year I ran my first two half-Marathons and a number of shorter races. Our winter running group is about to start again; my goals for 2014 are to improve my half-Marathon times rather than to run longer races.

Planning: I've got pre-planned actions for given scenarios but I haven't written them down well enough for my wife and daughters to execute them in my absence. This is probably the number one area that I could make a significant improvement in our preps, by putting together more written plans and checklists to make things easier if I'm not home. I'm taking next week off from work; this can be my little project for then.