New year, new blog! Or same blog, I guess. At any rate, since I closed out the year with a review of my 2023 goals while simultaneously lamenting that I didn’t write a January 2023 blog about said goals, I’ll start the year off taking my own advice and trying to do that for 2024.
So, without further ado, here are my five S.M.A.R.T. goals for 2024.
- Break four hours on my marathon time. If I hadn’t bonked in the last few miles of the Mighty Mo Run, I probably would have cracked 4:15 last year. I know there’s a sub-four hour marathoner inside me, I’ve just got to put in the work so he can come out.
- Pay down $20,000 worth of debt. I’m so tired of living with debt of some kind or another. We’re set up at the start of the year to where I think we’re going to be able to attack this well. The budget is dialed in, the new job is starting, We just need to go in and crush it.
- Content consistency: two blogs, one video, two 2+ hour streams each week. I’m not making much money on this content creator stuff, but I enjoy it. I also see much better results when I’m consistent. So for 2024, that’s the goal. Be consistent.
- Read fifteen books. I read fourteen (barely) in 2023, so I should keep pushing myself.
- Complete nine video games. I finished eight games in 2023, so again, one more. I really have no idea how well this one is going to go. Not well, if I get sucked into a long Mechwarrior: Online binge again, that’s for sure.
Most of these I think are pretty manageable goals. But, as 2023 taught me (and 2020 should also have taught me, and 2011, 2015…) a lot can happen in twelve months that you don’t expect. I’ll hold onto my goals lightly, give myself permission to fail, but try my best to stick to the plan that will bring success.