The new year is a good time to plan out goals for the upcoming 12 months. It's a long enough time frame that almost anything seems achievable, but also short enough that it doesn't feel like you have to wait forever to see the result. One of my problems with long-term planning is everything feels so far in the future and I want to see results NOW. Saving for retirement is great (and I do), but it's very annoying to want to do something next month and my money is tied up for the next 40 years.
So anyway, here is some of what I want to get done in 2020:
Read 12 books
My first thought was to read a book a month, but due to the nature of the fantasy genre I tend to choose large tomes. So I chose a fixed number to allow for larger and smaller books. I like to alternate between several styles of books: sci-fi, fantasy, and nonfiction. I have a coworker that reads a lot of science fiction so I get a lot of recommendations from him. Sometimes I'll hear about an interesting nonfiction book in a podcast or on Hacker News and end up reading it.
Reach level 2 in all French skills on Duolingo up to the third checkpoint
This is very specific, but I was hoping a more specific skill would be easier to accomplish. Last year, one of my resolutions was to become "conversational" in French and after an embarrassing incident where someone tried to talk to me and I shut down, I realized I didn't accomplish that goal. I've been using Duolingo for several years now, but never very seriously until we went to France a couple years ago and I wanted to not be the dumb American tourist. Even then, I still fall out of the habit, so reaching this goal should take me some time.
As of January 6, there are 23 skills I haven't started yet and 13 that are already at level 1. I feel like I have a very basic grasp of enough grammar to talk to a child, I just need to learn a lot more vocabulary in order to talk about what I want to talk about.
Another specific goal. I have several ideas for apps with varying degrees of scale, I just need to sit down and actually work one of them out. I've published some apps in the past, but they've always been very small utility apps (and their utility is questionable). I even made a little money with a silly soundboard app in college. The app I want to make should have some sort of internet requirement, though I don't yet have the skill to make my own back-end so it could just be a simple Firebase Function or similar.
Start a blog/personal website
It appears I've already accomplished this, but only the blog portion. After reading John Sonmez's Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual last year, I realized I needed a personal website and/or blog to start building a "brand". I don't necessarily want to become a freelancer who can only rely on my personal brand and influence, I just want my own (ideally self-hosted) place to show who I am. It's also a great way to practice other skills that I don't really work on in my regular job.
Earn passive income
I read The 4-Hour Workweek, Side Hustle, and Financial Freedom last year. I have some thoughts on the techniques in each of the books that I may write about in the future, but they did get me hooked on the idea of never having to work. I love the idea of having enough money to not need to work or to only work on what I really enjoy, but it's hard to do that when you still have to make house payments and pay off student loans. I feel like if I could set up something (successful paid app, dropshipping, real estate, investing, etc.) that pays me with minimal input aside from the work to set it up, I could really enjoy life.
Well those are some of my goals and some possibly extraneous backstory for each of them. I hope having clearly defined goals and writing them down somewhere will help my stick with it this year. Only time will tell.
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