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Goals for 2022

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By Rena

Happy New Year! The start of the year is when everyone work in vigour towards their goals? What are your goals for the year?

In my previous posts, I reviewed my performance in the 6 sectors: career, finance, health, family, personal development and side hustle in 2021. I also read my goal back in early 2021, which still resonate with me. In particular this --- when I am 40, I don't want to ask for permission to take leave. It's not I want no work, but rather I want to have the autonomy to do what I want at a time that works best for me. This philosophy guides my goals for 2022. 

In this year's goals, I've set it to be action based, and hence controllable, rather than result based ( which aren't within my control).


Health:

- run 1.6 km for 100 times ( or 160 km in all in 2022).

- eat 200 low carb lunches/ dinners

- complete all 6 tiers of National Step Challenge

Family:

- 30 bonding activities

- home improvement project (since I am home so much more often!)


Finance:

- learn about crypto

- analyse 2 sectors of stocks

Personal development

 skills to learn:

- marketing


Side hustle

- complete a project 

- make a website for a training business using my old skills and,

- tell 5 of my past clients about my training services


Google Sites Hosting

A side note...

I guess I must be a dinosaur.

Recently I realized I can make a professional looking website with a custom domain using Google Sites (with SSL) for free. No need to pay money for hosting, just pay for your domain,  making startup cost low.














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