New Approach for My 2017 Goals

In previous years, I’ve done year-end wrap-ups of what went well, what didn’t, and what I wanted to focus on, in several different categories.

I recently came across someone else who structured their goals a bit differently: it was based on the quarterly system.

That is, instead of having monthly or daily goals, there were just over-arching goals to get done within one quarter of the year, or one half of the year (for larger goals).

I liked the approach as it seemed to give me more mental space, and that I didn’t have to focus ALL my effort on one thing at a time, until that one thing was done. That doesn’t seem to work well for me.

The approach became: “you want to get this thing done by X, but you have 3 months to do it!”

Worked for me.

Obviously this doesn’t cover everything, but here are a few highlights I wanted to share, more to keep myself accountable, and to have an easy way to reference them in the future!

 

So, here are my 2017 Goals:

Quarter One (January – March)

• Revise Monthly Website Monitoring Plans and marketing page (update: done)
• Add the 1st module of my On-Camera Skills for Entrepreneurs course to Udemy (update: done – get 20% off with code ONCAMERA20)
• Create a new website for me and all my projects (update: a bit late, but done – you’re here!)

 

Quarter Two (April – June)

• Create an eBook and audiobook from the 30 Day Meditation Challenge (update: didn’t happen)
• Create an opt-in and develop course to help retirees travel more (update: didn’t happen)
• Record three episodes for a text work podcast (update: turned into The Working Actor’s Journey!)
• Create active/artsy guides for TripAdvisor (update: didn’t happen)

[Most of these things didn’t happen because I was cast as the lead in Richard III!]

 

Quarter Three (July – September)

• Create a new See the Speech video (update: didn’t happen)
• Attend a Vipassana meditation retreat (update: didn’t happen, though I did apply—they were just full)

 

Quarter Four (October – December)

• Depending on how the rest of the year goes, let’s see what makes sense here! (update: pretty much just doing the podcast!)

 

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