Short-term, very successful. I launched a product (a card game) back in 2003, and I wrote the obituary a few months before that in a university class.

I was advised to "periodically update" the obituary, but I haven't done that since. I'm sure it would be much different now! [*] My hobbies and interests have definitely changed, and I'm nowhere near the goal that I gave myself in that obituary. But it was certainly a great launching point.

[* Being a parent moved some of my priorities around. ;-) ]