2019 Goals — Overview
At the beginning of 2018, I wrote a post sharing my goals and what I hoped to accomplish. To establish some accountability, I also began writing a reflection article at the end of each month to summarize my progress. It seemed to be a good strategy so I’m carrying over into 2019.
I’ve put together my goals for this new year and broken them into 6 categories: Emotional, Financial, Intellectual, Physical, Professional and Spiritual.
To keep it simple, I wrote three goals for each category. Most of them are measurable which will make it easier to judge whether or not I’m successful.
💙 Emotional
- Listen without feeling need to fix situation
- Focus on relationships that matter
- Embrace minimalism
💰 Financial
- Save $36K
- Find financial mentor
- Start investing
👨🏼🏫 Intellectual
- Read 12 books
- Launch 2 projects on Product Hunt
- Master GraphQL
🏋🏼♂️ Physical
- Bench 250lbs
- 100 hours of yoga
- Dunk a basketball
👨🏼💻 Professional
- Speak at 5 conferences
- Write 6 articles
- Publish 24 egghead videos
🧘🏼♂️ Spiritual
- 200 hours of meditation
- 5-day retreat
- Solo retreat
Most of these are pretty straightforward. The only ones I probably need to elaborate on are the Emotional ones. Let me break these down:
Listen without feeling need to fix situation
From introspection and some conversations with close family and friends, I’ve realized I have a tendency to “fix” things. When someone close to me has a problem, or expresses some type of “suffering”, my immediate reaction is to find a solution.
Instead, I’ve realized I need to listen and be there for that person, without trying to find a solution.
Focus on relationships that matter
In high school and college and then post-college, we meet a lot of people. I spend time thinking about previous relationships. It feel impossible to keep them alive. And I’ve come to realize, I can’t.
So instead, my goal is to focus on the ones that matter the once.
Embrace minimalism
This could be interpreted in many ways but the main idea I want to communicate with this goal is to have less stuff. Over the past few years, I’ve bought things here and there and a lot of it sits around without being used. I would rather someone put good use to it (like my climbing gear).
For 2019, I hope to embrace minimalist and be more mindful when purchasing things.
And that wraps it up for my 2019 goals overview! 😃 Thanks for reading! If you wrote up an overview of your goals, please share a link in a comment below! I’d love to read about them 😸
