How To High-Level Plan To Continuously Improve
On the 4th of May, I turn 23 years old.
Throughout these 23 years of my life, I have been learning some things. If I can condense the majority I have learned one thing is for sure:
If you do not fight for your goals, no one will. Long term goals are usually the most difficult to complete, but are the most rewarding.
How can you help someone, including yourself, to move forward? In a nutshell, If you want to achieve something, you should start positioning yourself as soon as possible.
All in all, I defend that everyone needs to write a list of goals, within one year. That list will guide your development as a professional and as a person — and that is why you should build a realistic, diverse and serious list. It is also an exercise of introspection.
If you have no idea where to start, you can take some inspiration from my list.
24 Challenges I’m Going To Do Before I Turn 24
- Start a project with social impact (coming out soon) 🐺
- Finish my MSc with honours
- Start a PhD @ Técnico Lisboa
- Lecturing on the winter semester of 2019/2020
- Lecturing on the summer semester of 2019/2020
- Write the initial draft of the book for the It Infrastructure Management and Administration course.
- Write the initial draft of my book
- Have one or more scientific papers published
- Sell my first product as a freelancer
- Cooperate with blockchain startups
- Complete, as a mentor, the Hyperledger Project we proposed successfully
- Read one book per month
- Write one article per month
- Invest 10% of my monthly income in the Stock Market, moving gradually up to 20%.
- Donate to charity
- Volunteer at a hospital
- Go to an international music festival
- Go to a Portuguese music festival
- Sleep on the beach
- Watch Via Lactea from Alentejo, at night
- Fast for three days in a row
- Finish a full marathon
- Run a 10 km trail
- Start meditating
Looking forward to sharing some updates on this list 😀
Challenge yourself. Do Amazing things.
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Cheers, Keep Rocking 💪
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