Goals Review January

2026-01-31

Inspired by Matthew Dicks in Someday is Today, I want to start posting my goals publicly to hold myself accountable. I'll repost my goals monthly, along with the progress so far. The goal list is quite extensive. My thought process is that I should be able to accomplish at least 75% of it. If I'm closer to 100%, I'll add more; if it's not going so well, I'll adjust it accordingly.

All goals must be:

  • empirically measurable
  • have a deadline defined
  • only dependent on myself (no external factors/luck)

These are my goals for 2026, in olive the progress made in January :

Writing:

  • 4 Blogposts a month (not including goals progress checkup) - 2 ...not so good
  • One mobile app published
  • 8 web-apps shipped, 1 each month - 1 still being built
  • 5 Corruption Blogposts

Social Media:

  • Post on Twitter everyday (once account is created and pinned blogpost published) - account not yet created, I'm not sure what the focus/expertise should be
  • Reply or post everyday on Reddit so that I can gain 2000 karma by the end of the year. (Which, according to LLMs, 1,000-10,000 karma, is typical of experienced users with a strong reputation) only did this a couple of times, I'm at 28 karma

Learning:

  • Finish TOP Foundations Course in Q1 - on progress, but to be fair, I started this course almost 2 years ago
  • TOP Fullstack JavaScript Course in Q2
  • Learn to edit videos: A blogpost about corruption, edit that video and publish it in Q1 - still no blogpost
  • Learn Romanian: Duoling everyday, and anki deck - everyday, 100%

Health:

  • Floss everyday - everyday 100%
  • Exercise 4 times a week - not going well, a gym would help, but that's not in the plans

Other:

  • Read 60 books (re-reads are okay, as long as it hasn't been read yet in 2026) - read 4 books (1 behind schedule)
  • Visit Italy or Greece in March/April
  • Get to 1000 rapid in Chess.com - I actually lost elo, having only 390 at the end of January, I'm currently playing Blitz...but I should definitely play Rapid instead. Also should study the basic tactics, and do puzzles.

I'll update the progress on each goal at the end of each month. Keep me accountable.