How I Won Even Though I Failed

A review of my past year on Medium and my 2021 writing goals

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I had two main goals for 2021:

1. Keep writing and grow an audience on Medium
2. Publish a poetry collection

I can proudly say that I haven’t achieved either one of these goals and I’m gonna break down exactly why that was and why I refuse to let it discourage me from writing.

Let’s start with my Medium goals.

You are bound to fail if you set yourself too many goals.

I had way too many goals when it comes to Medium.

My Medium goals looked like this:

• Get into Better Humans with a 3k words empathetic tutorial
• Get an article into Mind Café
• Get an article into The Postgrad Survival Guide
• Publish 10 stories in The Haven
• Become a regular contributor to The Ascent
• Get 3 stories into Forge
• Hit 10k views a month
• Make 100$ a month
• Get 1 story to 1000 Reads
• Get 1 story to 24 hours member reading time