I’ve broken my 2018 goals into six areas — running, writing, working, personal, development and extracurricular — where I believe that I can make focused, tactical improvements over the coming months. My focus, as much as possible, is on specific areas where I find myself wanting to grow and modify my behaviors, either by doing more or doing less. A broad overview of the goals I’ll be tracking is below, but I’ll be writing more specifically about them in the days to come. I’m not sure I can pull off all of this, but why not aim high?

Running

• Train steadily throughout the year
• Stay injury-free
• Run the Snickers Albany Marathon on March 3 (hard)
• Run the Georgia Publix Marathon on March 18 (easy)
• Train for and run a fall marathon TBD
• Run 1,600 miles throughout the year
• Qualify for Boston with a 3:22 in Albany

Writing

• Write something every day, minimum of 250 words
• Complete first draft of novel
• Find accountability opportunities (writing group?)

Working

• Dress better
• Take meeting management course
• Run better meetings
• “Eat the Frog” — do the hard things first
• Become a better planner
• Be a better mentor
• Be more engaged and proactive
• Review budget every two weeks
• Work on memory
• Listen harder
• No social media at work

Personal

• Do 20,000 pushups over the year (about 50/day average)
• Get to 60 pushup set
• Get to 10 pullup set
• Read 25 books
• Biweekly nice thing for Melissa
• Make a practice of meditation
• Focus on keeping my cool
• Let my kids be themselves, not smaller me’s
• Don’t argue politics on Facebook
• Again, listen harder
• Be a more actively engaged friend

Personal Development

• Take a course in Unity
• Take a calculus course
• Take another Python course
• Take another AWS course
• Build a new Alexa skill
• Relaunch personal site (yay!)
• 10 tweets per week
• Learn to play two songs competently on guitar
• Build a serverless Web app
• Relaunch podcast

Extracurricular

• Publish a piece of writing somewhere
• Invoice monthly for freelance work
• Regular status reports for freelance work