2021 goals: January progress

At the end of January I set my goals for 2021 looking for a more productive year.

This is my January progress report. It’s being quite a challenge to set some achievable goals and to express myself again in English, but I’m feeling motivated and ready for it.

2021 goals

Write down my projects and researches in this blog;
Be able to have a daily conversation in Japanese;
Have all my photos edited. Have some of them at Shutterstock;
Have Home Assistant fully functional at home with some automations concluded;
Have a NAS server running with all our data organized;
Learn to write in Arduino and make some DIY projects;
Do periodical physical exercises;
Meditate;
Read more books.

Overall Review

I’m still trying to set a better routine to accommodate my activities. I spent a lot of time this week completing my first blog post and setting up my TrueNAS Server. On the other hand, I neglected my studies in Japanese.

What I could do better in February?

Follow my planning for the week/day and do not avoid doing the harder task.

Write down my projects and researches in this blog

Goal for this month: 2 posts
Achieved this month: 2/2 (100%)
Total achieved: 2/49 (4%)

Be able to have a daily conversation in Japanese

Goal for this month: 6 hours
Achieved this month: 0/6 (0%)
Total achieved: 0/288 (0%)

Have all my photos edited. Have some of them at Shutterstock

Goal for this month: 0 hours
Achieved this month: 0/0 (%)
Total achieved: 0/344 (0%)

Have Home Assistant fully functional at home with some automations concluded

I completed the setup of the system, but I thought that it would be much easier to transfer my Home Assistant config to TrueNAS. I found out that the Home Assistant TrueNAS plugin uses “Home Assistant Core”, a version that doesn’t work with my setup.

What will I do to overcome this issue?

I’m studying a way to install the “Home Assistant Supervised” version on TrueNAS. I expect to have it installed and working on the next week.

Total achieved: ~40%

Have a NAS server running with all our data organized

The setup went easier than expected and I’m already transferring my data. As always, I need to install some plugins yet and to fix some errors.

Total achieved: ~50%

Learn to write in Arduino and make some DIY projects

I’m postponing my Arduino studies because I’m focused on our NAS Server.

Goal for this year: 6 project
Total achieved: 0/6 (0%)

Do periodical physical exercises

Goal for this month: 3 days
Achieved this month: 3/3 (100%)
Total achieved: 3/120 (2.5%)

Meditate