New Year goals 🎯
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🤏🏼 Small thing, but it makes a difference
This will be the 3rd year I'll be planning for next year in December. At first, I thought it was silly and a totally unnecessary task, as "so much will change before then".
Which is true, but if you don't have a guideline to follow, you're really just going with the flow. 🧶
And sometimes that "flow" is...
But, not just to talk, but to try to illustrate.
When I have set my goals for the coming year, I was able to achieve almost all of them and looking back on the year before, the change was incredible. Not just in business, but in any area of life. 🤩
But looking at the business the difference in revenue was a "tiny" 240% between the two years. 📈
It takes a lot of determination and quite much time...
But it's worth it!
Now that you understand "Why" it's worth planning for next year and setting goals, it's time to move on to the next question...
🎯 How to set GOOD goals?
There are 1000+1 ways to set goals, I'm going to tell you the ones I've used and that have worked for ME.
First and probably the most important, do NOT set only business and career goals, or you will spend the whole year chasing them and not living the NOW.
I always separate my business goals and my personal goals.
💼 My company goals tend to be in between:
Number of active users
Developments
Experiences with the team
Active team members
😉 And this is how I categorize my personal goals:
Relationships (family, friends)
Physical (exercise, food)
Travel (what countries I want to go to that year)
Mental (mentors, meditation, books)
Fun (what exciting things I want to try)
Spiritual (mostly books I write down and experiences)
Material (what are the items I would buy, e.g., North Face Himalayan Jacket next year if I travel north and 2 giant suitcases)
And I plan to plan separately. I've been planning company stuff on my own, but now that we have such a serious team, I'm going to get them involved!
Let's look at the 2 Techniques I often use to target. Both are useful, but tailored for different people. One technique helps the dreamers and the other helps the realists.
The first is 10X, which I learned from Grant Gardone's book. 🚀
The idea is to look at what your realistic goals are and multiply by 10. Which yes, can be pretty scary, but think about it, if you only achieve half of it it's still 5X greater than your original goal.
Plus, if we think 10X, the information in our brains is going through a different neuron pathway, since we have to think completely differently for $100,000 and $1,000,000. Because of that, our brains will look for new opportunities for us.
I think you've guessed that this was the goal of the Dreamer type.
📕 Book Recommendation: 10X by Grant Cardone, of course up at BookBase - 18 minutes. It's about why it's worth setting much bigger goals.
And the other is...
2. S.M.A.R.T. Goals is a mosaic word that encompasses these:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time-Bound
So, we need to set goals that are, at the same time, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. Don't be scared, I'll give you an example of good and bad goals.
✅ Good goal
I want to bulk up to 80 kg by 31 December. (Bonus, if you set out the habits/habits that will help you achieve this, e.g. I need to exercise 4X a week and eat at least X calories)
❌ Bad goal
I want to bulk up next year. (This is neither specific, nor measurable, nor achievable because there is no number, maybe relevant, but not even time-bound because next year is a big mass not a specific date.)
I think you can see the difference between the two goals!
📕 Book recommendation 2: The Atomic Habits - by James Clear. It helps you exactly how to incorporate these systems alongside your goals. Systems > Habits.
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Back to our theme...
💭 What are my plans for next year with BookBase
If we have the necessary number of users, we would take the App abroad.🌍
Which would mean translating the App into new languages and being present in more countries, which would mean a bigger market. But also, a significantly bigger challenge. I don't want us to fall into the mistake of exiting too soon to foreign countries and splitting our focus.
Bringing the App Backend up to international standards. ⚙️
You know the Backend has been a bit neglected lately, but in January we are just focusing on fixing that! We need to improve a lot on Notifications and AI to catch up with the Endless Budget Apps (Most of them are just living off of investments, although they always get millions of dollars there)
Move abroad with Edu and Kokesz (and Kinga of course) for a few weeks and work from there.🛩
We wanted to go to Bali, but the ticket is so expensive, so we let it go. So that leaves us with European Bali (South Portugal, Canary Islands or good old Italy). I think it would give us a huge boost and open our eyes even more to the fact that where we are now is just the beginning!
I don't want to write a user number, because I don't want to limit ourselves, but I have an idea in my head, which has 5 digits.
💡 Side note: I think we could make a lot of progress with the App in addition to all the experiences. It'd be a bit like a movie, pushing coding on the beach.🌞
🔥 Challenge
The biggest challenge right now is to build a system that can help Kokesz and Edu in coding and make them more efficient! For sure, AI is now at a level where it can be a real help when cleverly tied together.
It can even save hours of development time.⚡️
❌ The goal is not to hire 5 other developers.
✅ The goal is to be able to Edu + Kokesz + AI to do the work of 7 developers (in time)!
📖 What have I just read?
The rough part is that I wasn't reading, I was talking, and not to a human... but to an AI!🤖
I know it's been deep, but I swear it helped me a lot in strategizing. Almost everyone on Twitter is already talking about it, it's called ChatGPT, a new product from Openai (Elon Musk was a co-founder I believe + they got a $1,000,000,000 investment from Microsoft)🤯
What can it do?
He wrote the final exam for Kokesz
Developed a marketing strategy for BookBase
Explained AI programming to Edu
Translated an entire code into another coding language
And much more...
Rough, but today I spent all day on this and I did it so well that Kinga said to me "Are you talking to that AI again? „!” What can I say... I like it!
📕 Book Recommendation 3: "Superintelligence" explores exactly similar themes; I think it's a very good read to start with if you're interested in this topic. Of course, it's up in BookBase.
🎧 What have I just listened to?
Lots of videos on the topic of ChatGPT, how to use it, how to get the most out of it and where it's all heading.
I've gone all the way from the basics to Hindu tutorials, so I'm really pretty deep into it.
✍🏼 Top quote
"A goal, without a plan, remains only a hope" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery