I have been meaning to ask you, it's last day of 2023 and I was wondering how many of you were able to achieve said goals as you planned in 2022?
I would like to know how did you manage to pull it off?
Any tips and tricks for us?
Thanks for your time.
May you all have a banging New Year ahead and if you offer a product or service, may you work so well that your MRR goes ramen profitable.
Regards karanveer
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” - Bruce Lee
I try to define very achievable monthly milestones. Over the past few years I have learned to love the feeling of focusing on just this month's set of milestones and accomplishing them in time.
For anyone that's interested, I'll share a link to a sample of my progress tracking spreadsheet [0] -- nothing complicated, but it can be helpful to have a predetermined structure in place. Feel free to make a copy for your own use!
[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13G9L1t82BtIggxEqeFUV...
1. Got married to my best friend
2. Met important KPIs at work, got a good raise
3. Published a few cover stories for a magazine--as a writer, writing the front-page story for a magazine has been a dream for a long time
4. Made good headway on personal creative projects
Counter-intuitively, what helped me most was narrowing my scope. Juggling wedding planning, hectic work schedules, assignment deadlines, etc. was stressful, so I just focused on what I could do each day, then every week or so I'd take a look at long-term objectives, recalibrate my objectives for the next week to align with those, and then not look at those long-term objectives again for a while. I learned a lot about breaking projects down into their constituent parts and making them manageable.
Even better, the "launch" went great [1] and gave me the necessary boost to keep at it!
It took lots of late and endless nights, much experimenting and tinkering, but I kept reminding myself to keep it minimal and just have it work.