A new year and I’m already late to define my public goals.
Last year I completely lost track of my progress and goals. Work took me a lot of time and I stopped almost every activity, even writing on this blog. Nevertheless I believe that setting my public goals and trying to keep track of them was a great activity. I became more productive and achieved more than without it.
It took me 3 months this year to define my 2022 goals, but I still believe that it will be useful.
Goals for 2022:
- Keep writing down my projects and researches in this blog;
- Keep reading, listening and writing in English;
- Have all my photos from Japan edited. Have some of them at Shutterstock;
- Have Home Assistant fully functional at my new home;
- Try again to learn to write in Arduino and make some DIY projects;
- Study programming, data science and machine learning;
- Do periodical physical exercises;
- Meditate;
- Keep reading books;
- Avoid getting involved with Work;
- Do (small) courses/projects related to Work.
Again, I have some private goals, which I won’t make public.
1. Keep writing down my projects
While I could keep writing here, it was a great pleasure. Organizing my ideas and writing them down helped me learning new skills and writing in english.
I’m back to work, so I’ll make easier for me. Instead of 1 post per week, I’ll try to write 2 posts per month (1 every 2 weeks)
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: once every 2 weeks, at least
How: writing this blog
2. Keep reading, listening and writing in English
I had a huge improvement on my english last year. Working using english and writing this blog made a huge improvement on it. I want to try keep my english as it is (or better, of course).
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: at least 3 times a week listening and reading; at least once every 2 weeks writing
How: listening podcasts, reading news on the internet and writing this blog
3. Have all my photos (from Japan) edited
My last year goal of editing all my photos was quite too much difficult. I’m trying to make this goal more feasible.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: 1 hour per week
How: editing on Lightroom
4. Have Home Assistant fully functional at my new home
This was one of those goals that were easily accomplished. This year the automations are going to be much more complex and difficult, but I still believe that I can complete them.
Start and ending period: starting now until July
How often: as often as possible
How: studying, editing and implementing devices
5. (Try again to) learn how to write in Arduino
I’ll have to study everything again to try to implement some Arduino automations.
I plan to implement 2 devices until the end of the year.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: when possible.
How: creating projects for home automation
6. Study programming, data science and machine learning
Last year this wasn’t a goal. If it were, I certainly would have accomplished it. This year I want to keep studying it and implementing on every corner of my life.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: 2 hour a week at least.
How: programming using Python and Javascript
7. Physical exercises
I did exercise for the first 3 months of the year. After that I got lazy and stopped at all. I’ll try to get back to the exercises.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: 3 times a week for at least 45 minutes each
How: Ashtanga Yoga and Lian Gong Shi Ba Fa
8. Meditate
Meditating was a great activity while it last. I want to keep doing it.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: 3 times a week
How: try different sort of meditation styles until finding one that fits me better
9. Keep reading books
My goal for the last year was quite ambitious, 24 books in one year is quite a lot for me. I couldn’t accomplish it, but I still read 21 books and I am very happy with it. As I said last year, reading is a pleasant moment in my life and 2021 was a great year on this matter.
This year I’ll set a goal more doable.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: daily
How: read 12 books this year or 1 book every month
9. Avoid getting involved with Work
I have a terrible habit of getting too much involved with work. It’s not a healthy thing to do, so I’m trying a “let it go” thing with it.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: remember every week if I’m being able to keep my goal
How: not getting worried if things doesn’t work out
10. Do (small) courses/projects related to work
It’s a weird goal, specially after saying that I’m trying to avoid getting involved with Work.
What I’m trying to accomplish is to get involved with my Work study program doing courses like e-Gov, programming and others not directly related with what I do subjects.
Start and ending period: starting now until the end of the year
How often: 1 course per month
How: subscribing on the available courses