5 Things I Need to Do Today to Accomplish My 2017 Goals! (Steemians Can Help in One)
It's 31st December 2017; the deadline for all the new year goals set in January. Actually, I understood the average life of most new year resolutions—one month or less—so I waited for one month before setting my goals of 2017. By the time I set my new year goals at the end of January, half of the world had already abandoned theirs. Call me crazy but that's what I did.
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Brief History of My 2017 Goals Progress
Now setting goals wasn't my strongest area because it was only the second consecutive year that I had set any decisive goals for myself. Therefore, I was a bit overwhelmed and set 20 freaking goals, divided in various categories. When September came, I realized that I was only a human and I needed to respect that fact.
Reconciled list and update as of right now
The humility of being just a humna helped me slash the goals down from twenty to just eight; a a manageable figure. While I have managed to complete three goals already, five are still pending completion. Two more goals are on the brink of completion and will get completed by midnight tonight. Details will follow.
The remaining three goals will require an incredible amount of effort, some magic, and miracles to be accomplished. I am mentioning these three goals first, sharing what I need to do in order to achieve them.
1. Find a Girl, Propose Her, Get Engaged, Get Married (Today!)
My number one goal was to get married in 2017. Rather, I would have loved to have been married in 2016. But it was not to be. I was this close though this year. Properly committed, I was supposed to tie the knot in November. It wasn't to be...
Some motivation from Pixabay
If I wish to pursue this goal, I have less than 7 hours to find a girl, propose to her, get engaged and then get by midnight tonight. I am not a quitter but I think I should reserve my energies for 2018.
2. Lose At Least 11 Pounds
I wanted to slash my weight at least to 152 Pounds form the current 163. I have practically done nothing to achieve this goal except a green patch in June-July when I used to fast dawn to dusk, swim for 30-45 minutes and play Futsal in a single day. Excessive diet control and exersion meant that I reached near 152 Lbs in wight and turned slimmer.
After that, it was a sorry state of affairs and I am 163 Lbs again. But I have more than six hours to change that. I guess not worth the trouble. Come 2018 and I go again.
3. Finish 3 Weeks of Work to Complete an EdX Course
When the year started, I had planned to complete 20 courses related to blogging alone. I completed three of them early on. Add two courses on leadership, two courses on content creation, and a 12 week course on public speaking and I had a whopping number of 25 courses to do. I dropped the idea to just one course. And didn't do that too.
Lately, I resorted to this course as my only target.
I have done one week of effort on this course and it needs work of four more weeks to be done. The course finished in December and now has restarted with an end date of July, 2018. I think I will borrow first 15 days of new year to complete this course and improve my success rate on 2017 goals to make it six out of eight.
4. Finish Reading One Book
I had a target of reading at least ten books in 2017. I have finished nine already. But for the last two weeks, I have not made any progress on the tenth except the sixty pages I read yesterday before going to sleep.
Talaash is an Urdu word meaning Quest, the book I am reading at the moment.
It seems difficult but I am totally committed to finishing the book that I am reading right now and I will finish it tonight. Reading books is one of the best things I have done in 2017; which include joining Steemit.
A sneak peak at the books I intend to read in 2018. I have bought them already.
Reading books is one of my highly prioritized goals and I will include books in my plans for coming years as well.
5. Go to 60 Reputation from The Current 59.857
This is the most achievable and doable goal for today. When I redefined my goals in September, I included Steemit in my plans and set a goal to have at least 1000 Steem (Steem + SP) in my account by end of this year. Then I added 60 Reputation score as a goal as well.
While I achieved 1000 Steem goal 27 days ago, reputation is not easy to increase. You know that if you have read my Reputation Score 101 guide.
Steemnow.com snapshot of my current reputation score.
But I am too close right now and just need a few generous upvotes to get to 60 reputation score. I cannot explain how much it means to me to reach this score.
PS: I have found Steemit community generous enough to those who contributes. However, bots are in use by a large number of people to boost their visibility and payouts. I have changed my stance on bots after carefully observing the community and I am now open to using voting bots.
Conclusion
Setting goals and pursuing them has been a highly productive activity for me. Even writing about setting effective goals earned me $189 on a single post during my first week on Steemit. I encourage you to set goals for 2018 and pursue them. Let me share with you what goals I have achieved in 2017.
Having Three Income Streams
Sponsoring Education of Two Poor Children
Construction Work to Build My Home
This post is a little-serious-bit-funny take on my goals and their progress. I hope you enjoyed reading it. Please resteem and upvote to help me achieve at least one of the pending goals by tonight.
I was drinking my coffee as I read you're first goal.... now all I can say is there was coffee ALL over my laptop hahaha! I love it, as long as it's still 2017 you still have a fighting chance!
As for you're weight loss goals, I'm actually a certified personal trainer and have a few ideas in mind to help you meet your goals if you'd like some assistance!
The idea of completing some credits right away in 2018 is an excellent idea and I think your "future self" will appreciate that lol
I wouldn't worry too much about your reputation being 0.15 away from 60 before 2017 ends. You will easily get there by early January. I'll toss in my measly 1 cent upvote haha, but I got you with the resteem!
Finally, kudos and congrats to you @ilyastarar, you set some great goals for 2017! I've thought about using bots as well to further my rep, but I know the steemit community has my back once I start posting more content! You've inspired me to think of some crypto 2018 goals for myself and post to Steemit here in the near future :)
I hope you've been having a great holiday season and have a very happy new year!
Enjoyable post- I like to read books too and can't find the time during the semester - I am happy to see you almost reached that goal! I hope I could be a whale and take you to the reputation of 60 :( but I can't - I hope some whale will notice the quality of your posts and do three thing for you!
Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊
You are a lucky charm. I am here. See the number. Happy new year!!! 😍
Lol, I am happy to help! Congratulations! 🥇
Read the 4 hour work week first. It has a lot about goals and how to get stuff done. I just ordered his new book "tribe of mentors". I'm excited to read that as well.
Good luck on 2018
I saw Tribe of Mentors but I was looking for Tribes by Seth Godin, which was not available. The salesman wanted to sell me but I insisted on reading *4 Hour Work Week first. Many people insisted on reading Dale Carnegie's first and I think I will do that because it's a relatively smaller book and it's good to start small.
Wish you all the best for 2018.
I hope you will surpass your goals.
To reach a reputation of 60 today would be awesome.
I will try to give you a little help on that ;-)
Thank you so much for your honest goodwill and incredible support. Always great to have people like you around.
Now thats the motivation that everyone needs.. completing your goals is one of the best feelings in the world.
I am specially impressed by your goal of reading books.. it has alot of advantages and sadly the practice of reading books is now scarce in digital world..
Hoping that you would get to 60 rep before midnight
Cheers
Thank you very much! I am extremely hopeful of getting to 60 rep by midnight but I have no control over it; especially because I cannot post on censored Facebook for two more days. Some good groups there.
Cheers for the accomplished goals of 2017!! 😀😀😀
Cheers for 2018 goals! 😀😀😀
Thank you so much!!!
You are very much welcome. 😀
I'm very impressed that you keep track of your resolutions! and very noble new resolutions for 2018! :)
Thank you so much. I have learned that having goals produces a focus in our minds and directs our energies towards achievement of those goals. That is why I set goals for myself so that I have some direction.
Just let me honestly tell you that if you equally divide the total pages of the books you've read to 20, you ll gain the achievement. Cause some of these books are ten fold powerful then some others. And nice to see a Rumi related book BTW.
And hope that a very ''Steemit Year'' with joy...@ilyastarar
Thank you so much. Dividing bigger goals into smaller ones, like 20 pages at a time, helps achieving them faster and ensures consistent effort. I totally agree and thank you for your suggestion.
Happy new year to you!
You are welcome. it will be steemit year so will be nice for us!
Wow, very impressive list! You did a lot of great things.
Thank you so much!
All the best for your repute 60 goal before midnight overall you did well. Have a happy and blessed 2018.
Thank you so much for your wishes.
you are most welcome @ilyastarar so finally you achieved what you desired Congratulation to have 60.17 repute. stay blessed