2022 Goals

I want to be a good person. That entails being loving to my family, helping my friends, being kind to all the people. I want to be a very well-disciplined person that doesn’t wait for things to happen to him, but rather pursues the goals and things that he wants. I want to do good work that helps people, improves their lives.
I think I spoke about this in other parts of this review, but at the end of the day, I just want to be a good person.
Clearly, different people have different ideas of what “good” is. So, perhaps, listing some people I look up to when it comes to being good, would help entail what my idea of good is. So here are some such people:
I also want to be a human being that always looks to improve in some way. Be it learning some history, reading some philosophy, building an app to learn a programming language, or anything else that improves me as a human being. This sounds corny to me by now, but I want to be a person that is in a constant beta mode.
This is not exactly behavior, but I would like to be a person that earns well and provides all the basic needs for his family, and more.

I mean, these are pretty regular themes :) We all want the same things I think.

Family: 7
- Have a kid
Finances: 7
- Get to around $1000 MRR with Side Hustle
Physical health: 6
- Get to 70kg without added muscle mass
- Bring back the simple morning exercise (push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups)
Mental health: 6
- Make meditation a regular morning habit
Learning: 8
- see below
Relationships: 5
- Reach out to more people online and in real life.
Fun: 4
Work: 7
- get a raise (in the title this year)
- work on more visible projects (like abode)
Travel: 7
- Travel around the US this year
- Visit Russia and travel to European countries for fun and a visa.
Creativity: 4
- post a few articles with the help of my Obsidian database.
Spirituality: 1

Personal Website (Blog, Audience)

start a new podcast (either like the Built with Django Podcast or like Made you Think Podcast)
Write at least one tutorial this year
Write at least one blog post with the help of Obisidian
Get to 1000 Twitter Followers
Get to 500 Newsletter subscribers
Publish a newsletter every week
Publish Notes on 12 books

Built with Django (Site and Podcast)

OTB Chess (Community and Blog)

Other (Crypto/NFT/Learning)

Programming
- build a small random project in Rust
- build a small Solana project with Rust
- improve in Python even more
- build a small Algorand project with Python
- build a mobile app with React Native
- complete Cistercian Dates NFT Project
Chess
- get to 1600 ELO
Language
- Complete the Duolingo Italian Course
- Learn 625 Italian Words
Reading
- Try going through the First Year program on the Great Books of the Western World
Other Tech to Learn/Improve in
- React Native
- Rust
- Kubernetes
- Django
- Celery
- Stripe

This is where I take my goals from the last step and think about accountability and completion mechanics. Or in other words, how am I going to ensure that these tasks get done, how am I going to track them?
I don’t want to be too aggressive with my systems as the failure to comply with them might be crushing.
I like my current approach where I work on a project that kind of feels right.
Of course, I do have a hard schedule for some tasks. For instance:
- Personal Newsletter every Tuesday.
- Django Newsletter Every Friday that I have something to show for.
- Chess improvements, meetups every Saturday, and 2 tournaments per month. That’s around 52 practices + 24 tournaments.
- Add notes to the Obsidian database every day
- Do Duolingo exercises every day
- Exercise every other day
- Follow the slow carb diet
Some of these tasks motivate and inspire further work on these projects.
For other things, I will be waiting for the right time and regularly reviewing the goals. For example, to learn Rust I need a good amount of free time and mental space. For that, I need to finish the NFT project.
So can’t work on all the items, simultaneously, so with every milestone just have to consult my goals to see what can do next.

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