Goals give me something to aim for, I hate doing them at work, because so much of what I'm doing is not free form where I can choose what I want to do. So goals there are meh for me. But goals at home give me a direction to aim, I had a goal of going to the gym 52 times this year, meaning I went (on average) 1 day a week.
Compare this to my last 10 years, and well, I'm not a frequent gym goer, I would hit it hard for a few weeks then die off. But by putting a number to it, I hit my goal, I'm on track to hit 75 visits to the gym this year, yes part of it is a goal to get healthier, but it was also easier to say, well if I just go once this week, I'll hit my goal, so I did.
Years back I had a similar goal for reading, gotta read X books, I blew past it, I think my goal was 50 books, and I read 100, I was listening to books and reading books constantly.
I don't have a clue about all my goals for next year, but I do know that 104 is my goal for the gym next year.
I frequently have ideas for products/things so maybe coming up with a goal there, but there's the rub. A goal like go to gym X times is an easy metric it's like lines of code. So many other things in life don't have a straightforward metric, and as humans we are metric optimizing machines.
If you told me I would get paid (only) based on lines of code written, and how much I got paid was based on that, and literally nothing else, I would be writing code like a madman. However, that just results in a bloated mess. Finding tangible clear metrics or goals to aim forr can be tricky, so I'll be thinking about that. I have done a mix of health, mental, and emotional goals in the past but they were fuzzy, so this year will take some work!
Do you have goals? Hit me up! blog@onaclovtech.com tell me about them, maybe I can steal a few :)
