Overview

Learn how to set SMART goals.

• Specific.

  • Make specific goals and narrow for more effective planning.

• Measurable.

  • Evidence to prove that we are making progress and reevaluate when necessary.

• Attainable.

  • Accomplish a goal within a certain timeframe.

• Relevant.

  • Goals should align with our values and long-term objectives.

• Time-based.

  • Realistic & ambitious deadline for prioritization and motivation.

I've split my goals for 2023 in a personal and professional way. With this, I will be able to focus on the areas which I can improve upon and work towards that without any confusion and strike a balance.

Just a small piece of advice to readers. Never just set a goal and leave it as such. Main success lies in attaining the end state of the goal (Which can be achieved by proper planning and setting a game plan to complete those).

• Set a realistic goal.

• Keep track of the plan on how to execute it.

• Work towards it and review it if needed.

Goals

💪🏽 Start Date: Jan 1st, 2023.

🤞🏽 Review Date: Sep 30th, 2023.

🤌🏽 Review Blog Date: Dec 1st, 2023. (Will write a post about success/failure rate).

🤝🏽 End Date: Dec 31st, 2023.

Professional 💻

Let's start with improving myself professionally with the below goals.

• Learn about Distributed System designs in depth.

  • Have started watching Martin Kleppmann's lectures about Distributed Systems. (Reference below)

  • Publish common System design architectures (Say job scheduler) and make it open-sourced in GitHub.

• Post articles about engineering in my blog every Saturday.

  • Have already created a series in this blog to get started.

  • Have created a reminder to ensure I post regularly. (I consider reminders seriously OCD 🤧)

• Start a side project with my friends.

  • We are still working on solving some customer pain points. Still figuring it out. WIP 🏗️

• Write production level Machine learning (ML) applications.

  • Have started watching the youtube playlist by HuggingFace. (Reference below)

Personal 👨

Let's look at some of the goals I always wanted to achieve personally.

• Get fitter and reduce my weight to around 85-88kgs.

  • Currently, I weigh 93 kgs. Have set a reminder to start working out 🏋️‍♀️ at least 5 times a week and never skip 2 days in a row.

• Save emergency funds. (At least 3-6 months of my monthly salary)

  • Have to start this by creating a mandate for arbitrage funds in Zerodha Coin.

• Invest my excess money 💰 each month in the Indian and US stock markets.

  • Have created SIP in stocks in both markets.

• Donation.

  • Have started this by donating 1000 rupees 💴 on a monthly basis online.

  • Have to discuss this with some of my friends/relatives to carry it out in person. I personally feel happy and satisfied when I donate to those who are in need.

References

This is the last post for this year, see you next year with much more useful and interesting content. 🥹