If you are anything like me, you set a whole bunch of goals and things you want to do and get around to about 12% of it every year. This has been a pretty difficult habit to fix but this year I think I finally found the hack.
Two years ago I had an idea for Monthly resolutions because a year is just so hard to plan for. I set a list of goals every single month. By March or April though, I had completely forgotten about it.
It turns out the idea was good but the implementation was not so good. I made way too many goals each month, having too many things to balance is my problem in the first place. I also set goals that I knew were too ambitious for me, hoping that I could achieve about half.
This year I'm trying these again but I've gotten the kinks out. I'm setting fewer goals per month, and making the goals realistic enough that it won't be too hard to finish them.
Each month gets 2 main projects and I will spend my energy on whichever excites me more on a given day. In the end if I achieve 50% of what I have on my list, that is a successful month.
My goal for January was to finish 5 chapters of my novel, essentially making the novel half complete. I completed one....but the other goal was to find 5 private students, and I found 5 regular students as well as 5 other potentially regular students, so that is a month well spent! I also had to deal with a lot of stuff between the end of December and now.... losing my wallet, finding my wallet, my boss going nuts, renewing my visa, going part time at the company so I could go freelance, moving. It's the first month I've earned a full working persons salary in about 2 years too!
Next month, my goal will be to:
- Get back to those 5 chapters
- Find another 5 regular students and create 5-10 chapters of a textbook I'm working on.
I have a feeling the pendulum will swing the other way and I will focus much more on writing this time. If I can keep this up, that's 12-24 goals accomplished in 2020. That's some great motivation to get serious.
Here are some other things I want to do this year:
- Finish this first novel (10 of about 25 chapters complete)
- Re-record my first album (currently have demos of each song)
- Learn the pressure points on 12 meridians of the body
- Create a textbook for my students, at least a bare-bones edition this year
- Use Duolingo to learn spanish
- Use Duolingo to learn German
- Use Duolingo to learn Indonesian
- Review Japanese vocabulary and grammar for JLPT 2
- And JLPT 1
- Finally get around to treating Cantonese serious (maybe I'll save this for the end of the year as I usually visit HK close to new years)
- Put more energy into promotion of my work including making a website
- Studying some music theory
- Playing a lot more shows
That is about 24 goals if I split them up a bit. There is also another 3 novels I want to work on....but I've put them aside for now so that I can focus on this first one. There are other things I'll continue to do in between like our podcast and of course, hanging out here!
What do you want to accomplish this year?
Setting monthly goals is a good idea because it seems way more realistic and doable to me than yearly ones. Honestly I stop setting New Year Revolutions because they were hard to achieve and just start focusing on setting weekly goals at the most.
I’m such a planner and write down everything to try to stay organized. When I don’t accomplish things it’s so frustrating and disappointing. Thus this...
is a nice way to approach things. Thanks for sharing your ideas and plans on getting more accomplished.
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I used to be very goal oriented but then I went on this kind of inward journey where I learned to let go of everything...long story...but now I don't make many plans...or I should say I wasn't making plans but now I'm trying to make plans and not get attached to them
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That’s a good plan to have :)
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I’d like to accomplish quite a bit this year. Right now I am still recovering from Christmas and a financial snafu but starting next pay I should start to really have things come together.
My goals centre around working to be of the maximum amount of benefit to myself and others.
This means things like getting a driver’s licence, full time permanent work, learning to teach English as a second language, reaching the dolphin level, losing more weight, gaining muscle.
I’d also like to save enough money to comfortably have an overseas adventure.
I’m also setting engagement goals for Steem and trying to build up the community.
These can be like a certain number of comments and so forth.
I need to start doing DTube videos again too.
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Those are some solid goals. Hope you achieve all of them.
I feel The best thing to teach a language is to learn a language yourself.
I can’t figure out why we need 3speak AND dtube at this point but I’ve had better experiences with 3speak
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DTube came first and was open to everyone, but uploading problems made it unwelcoming.
3Speak was a centralised, censored, exclusive club in the beginning and the owners themselves were unwelcoming towards me and a few others that expressed an initial interest. Once bitten, twice shy.
I might post an intro video here and see what happens... one day.
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:-( curious what they did. I’m just toying around right now at various platforms and slowly learning about what goes on behind the scenes. Dtube also doesn’t work for me at all, uploads fail
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What I do is upload unlisted videos to YouTube and then use the link to upload it to DTube. I really wish they would fix their issues.
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sugoi! that's quite a list of goals you have. Ganbatte! Taking JLPTN5 was my goal from 6 years ago and still pending.
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Oops! Well I'd say it's never too late but it sounds like you aren't in the right mindset to study :-P
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Yes my mindset in learning Japanese Language is at its lowest point ever exist.🙃
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LOL judging by your list you haven't learned your lesson very well.
Success is mostly based on habits. So if you want to add something that will take a while, try it like this: I will only do one lesson of duolingo a day, at a certain time. If I have done that - success!
If it is fun and I want to do one more - I will just do it.
That way you might not look back and see all the stuff you didn't achieve, but all the stuff where you did reach your goal and even more!!!
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Oh wow I like your approach on the language study. I will integrate that into my Japanese language study. Thank you 😊.
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どういたしまして
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