A review of my 2024

An article about annuals goals and how to deal with them

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Being in a vacation it's weird for me, at the same time that I'm forcing myself not to think about work, and relax, sometimes it's difficult. So, here I'm trying to occupy my mind with something else, in this case, writing.

In 2023 I've tried to start the habit of writing annuals goals, I probably have seen some influencer on Youtube saying that is important to have goals, so I thought, why not?

By the end of 2022 / beginning of 2023 I was staring at my computer trying to figure out "good goals". In the notes app I've created three categories.

1. Professional
2. Financial
3. Personal

The trick part was to figure out how many goals should I have and of course, goals that would be achievable.

So using a methodology to draw the best course of action, nah, I just kidding, random choosing 3 goals per category, that was my course of action. (At least I tried to write SMART goals).

Result?

By the end of 2023 I've achieved 3 out 9 goals. You can consider this a failure, however

I learned a few things though (some are obvious):

1. Writing down goals is important, but I think more important is to write them in a place that you're constantly visualizing them.
2. Not achieving a goal is not a big deal, recalibrate for the next year
3. Try not to put too much pressure about them, for example, one of my goals was to read at least 20 minutes per day during 100 days. There were times that I was clearly tired, but I forced myself, and of course, learned nothing out of the reading.

Back in 2024

Here we go again trying to write annual goals, this time I reduced the number of categories to:

1. Personal
2. Financial

Personal

The personal goals in my point of view was something that I could pull off.

1. Exercise about 1h per 220 days

Fancy huh?!? Using an AI tool to draw the result of an goal. (only this one time I will use an image)

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Result: 204 out 220 days (93%)

2. Read at least 20 minutes per 180 days

Result: 125 (69%)

Financial

The financial part is not relevant here, but what it is relevant is the fact that out of the 3 goals, I've achieved all of them.

Self high-five

There's an explanation for that, financial, investments, everything in this area of expertise is something that I've always liked, is like my second profession.

What come next? Trying to use the methodology of continuous improvement (I thing you can use continuous improvement in everything that you do in your life).

I just wrote my annuals goals for 2025 (yes, I know, 5 days has been passed already). Here's what I did:

1. I use a particular app for self organization on a daily basis, is called (Tick Tick), this time I've written the goals there, a place that I'll constantly be seeing.
2. I kept the 3 categories but recalibrate the goals based on the two previous years.
3. The goals that I already have achieved and that continuous to be important in my point of view, I made them more challenging.
4. The goals that are counted on a daily basis, I'm using also the Tick Tick app that has a module called "Habits" for that.

Well, that's it, just sharing you a few words, by the way, writing more is one the goals, let's how it turned out by the end of the year.

Hope you liked!