“Dreams are the resolutions which didn’t break in February”
Most of us make new year resolutions every year like to learn a new language, quit smoking, exercise daily and so but not more than 10% of people stick to it. Determination to do some task on regular basis decreases with time.
Reason most of the people break their resolutions early is because we are not accountable for this to anyone, hence we set priorities over them. We are only accountable to ourselves so we don’t care much. Even a diabetic patient start eating sugar products & stop exercise after few days.
What if we write down our resolutions and measure it over time ?
I thought of taking over this problem by making my resolutions & progress made on them public. Why should you write your resolutions, because:
1. It will make your small term goals clear. Most of the people say they will lose weight this year, but very few talk about how much . Are you clear on your subject ?
2. If you write your resolution and share it public (like i will do this year), it will motivate you to complete that task. Now you are accountable to many who are reading you.
3. It will help you keep away from distractions. You may have multiple tasks running in your mind, but it will clear your thoughts and keep away from distractions.
4. It will help as a reminder to complete a leftover task. Its better to review each of your resolution every month.
This post will only cover what my resolutions are(at high level) for year 2016. Further i will also post my learning over time which will force me to complete my goals in time (hopefully it may also help somebody).
Few resolutions i took in 2016:
- Learn new topic every 2 months
For first 2 months, i will work to complete the pending work on StartupYar, will learn & implement SEO on it and write few blog posts so that it could get good amount of traffic. So, learning for first 2 months will account for SEO & content writing.
Although this will be an ongoing process, but January & February will make a base for it. If i missed the point, this time will also account for re-designing StartupYar & some media publications for it :)Topics for next subsequent months(Mar-Apr, May-June, ..) are yet to be decided but it may include:
a. Digital Marketing
b. Data Analytics
c. Cyber Security
d. Artificial Intelligence
e. Financial learning
(Have suggestions?, i am hungry for them) - Travel
Travel opens up your mind, help you make new connections & become a good presenter. This year i will travel to some new place where i was not gone before. - Sports
I usually play my favorite game ‘Soccer’ during weekend and ‘Badminton’ in weekdays. I will continue playing these and learn swimming during summers (like i did last year :p ). My plan is also to try some new game this year, may be ‘Lawn tennis’ 😀 .
- New product launch
I will create some new (and yes awesome) product this year. This could be a digital product to make any process easier or any platform like StartupYar to help startups. May be i can start as a hosting provider. At this moment, i don’t have any idea about it. - Grow 38Candies
Any of the product we create or projects we complete will launch under 38Candies. It was founded by me (of course) along with my childhood friend Varinder. Now, our mutual friend Pankaj joined us and handles designing part. We wish to add some more people with us on this journey. Maybe web developer, android dev, growth hacker or good adviser.
It will also include helping StartupYar to reach at new heights & to bring new projects so that stack will never be empty for team.
With this goal, my aim is to generate enough revenue so that i can work full time into this(this may goes to next year too). I think i forgot to tell while writing this post, i got a mail from PayPal (My first paycheck made by StartupYar 🙂 🙂 ).Let’s see how much i will able to complete by EOY.
Lots of pending shit to ship in 2016. We have to work hard & party harder.In upcoming posts, i will share the details about my learning in this blog and few good reads in blog.startupyar.com . Stay tuned. Make your own resolutions and share what you are up to this year :)Happy 2016 !