My Goals 2026

January 5, 2026 #notes

My Goals 2026Here are my goals for 2026, I usually like to do SMART goals, aka specific, measurable, achieveable, relevant, and time bound.🎯 Outcomes based goals100K followers3 Award/Grant/Fellowship/Trip$10K MRR for Cleve$10K/month incomeGet into SF/Trip to SFRead 24 booksStart 1 social iniative5 paid talks5 brand dealsThe problem with this is these metric are outcome based and not fully under my control. So instead, I'll convert these SMART outcome goals into a action based goals to achieve those outcome. For example: get 100K followers -> post every day.In my case, here are my action-based items for the goal above:🏃 Action based goalswrite everydayfinish a thought piece every week, turn into -> text post or carousel, video decision: (hire someone to convert thought piece to posts?) / automate post once a weekapply to an award/grant every monthsearch and list down awards every 3 monthsRead 1 pages of non-fiction every dayMethodbased on the annual reflections i have. Here are some improvements that I think can helpProductivity✅ Only accept paid speaking engagements (except high profile/pro-bono event)🤔Hire a slide designer for talks?✅ Unsubscribe BUMP Climbing Gym🤔Subscribe to Evolveflex Fitness?🤔 Buy an iphone/android🤔Buy a macbook air✅ Track habits properlyHabitDone apps for habit, Hardcover for books, Hevy for workout, Letterboxd for movie, Content🤔 Hire a social media editor/manager✅ Setup buffer & auto schedule to X, Thread, Mastodon, Instagram, Twitter✅ Bulk create thought piece or content scriptsTask ListsGrant/Award/FellowshipList 10 grants / iniativeapply to mozilla foundation fellowship (deadline 30 Jan)Contentset up blog systemwrite content plan/calendarsetup buffer with my account