Goals for 2019

By: Cam Wohlfeil
Published: 2019-01-02 1100 EST
Category: General

I want to try something new this year, setting solid goals for myself and ranking them based on how important they are to me. These rankings are based on how much they improve my life, feed in to other goals, and my own desire to achieve them.

Maintain and Improve

• Be more sociable
• Less time on phone, timewasters
• Log/bullet journal

High Priority

• Graduate college - March
• Get under 90kg - May
• Get under 80kg - December
• Put 10% of my income away
• Spend time with family - Feb, May, Nov
• Trip to Benelux - September
• Decide where to move/work next - May
• Less eating out - 1 a week
• 10,000 steps every day - 5,000 baseline + 5,000 extra
• Trekking/hiking/biking/camping/airsoft - 1 a month

Medium Priority

• Finish Linux course
• FSI German - 1 chapter a month
• Pass AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam
• Books - read 1, listen to 2 books a month
• Games - Finish 1 a month
• Movies - Watch 1 a week
• Finish projects - Shelf, Markov bot
• Write - 1 post a week
• Apply to Amazon DC - March
• Maintain a disaster/bug-out bag

Low Priority

• Learn more DevOps - Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, and Gitlab
• Math - Khan Academy, Math for Non-Mathemeticians, Calc Made Easy, Concrete Math
• Finish JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript, and Angular courses
• Master touch typing - Typing Club
• Finish FSI German Unit 1
• Pass German A2 exam
• Start an ongoing project - YouTube, podcast
• Electronics projects - include nephew