What's a reasonable first-year goal?

"Profitable" is a bad first-year goal for most people — it encourages shortcuts. Better goals: survive with the account intact, follow a plan on every trade, and journal enough to know your real numbers.

What would you set as a first-year goal?

• the goal you'd give a beginner
• the goal you actually had
• what reaching or missing it taught you

This thread should read like honest expectations, not motivation posters.