Decrease bodyfat to <15% (using consistent measure)
bench press 225 lbs
run a 5k in < 22 minutes
deadlift 350 lbs
Professional
meet work metrics for billable ratio, PM profit, and sales credit
continue building statistics project experience and skills: Read/review the following - Statistical methods in water resources (USGS), Survival Analysis (course), statistics with python (3 courses)
Review basic hydrogeology and learn the basics of groundwater modeling and running models
Review documentation and understand risk assessment
Financial
Pay down $10,000 of total debt
Personal
Learn computer programming - focus on python and basic web development skills
Get married with my fiancee
Buy that new Toyota Corolla
Get in shape and make my last year of playing soccer
Finish 3rd this season with the team I coach
Be 1st next half season before winter.
Get a UEFA C license.
A lot of the time people write out goals but often donāt fulfill them due to not having a good system in place for actually working on their goals. When setting up yearly goals, itās also useful to evaluate your progress at certain intervals to make sure youāre actually working towards the goals.
Iām going to put my January-June review below, which will hopefully be useful to others as a template for evaluating their own goals.
Completed goals
reduced non-mortgage debt by $22,645
reduced waist size by 1.875" and lost 5.5 lbs total pounds (mostly fat)
chest/waist, arm/waist, and thigh/waist ratio improved indicating some lean body mass growth
had a profit of 6.39% for projects where I am a PM and sales credit of $132,372
Read 3 books (the comfort crisis, can you go, ageless)
completed precalculus specialization on Coursera
Things I need to work on
project completion - commit to a project and complete it
reduce distractions and social media usage (< 8 hours/week - use iPhone screen tracker to verify)
be more consistent with following an exercise program (stop changing programs so frequently or actually run a program)
improve my billable ratio - need to improve focus during the work day
budgeting - need to get better at budgeting money. January, March, May, and June had budget deficits. I donāt have credit cards, so I canāt spend more than I have, but I also canāt exhaust my savings.
Goals for the remainder of 2022
improve billable ratio to > 60% (will need an additional 695 billable hours or 1248 total for the year) - billable work is work that can be charged to a project. there are also other work tasks (admin-related, meetings, technical training)
complete the following technical training for work: ArcGIS Pro software training, review key regulatory documents (ā¦), complete a statistics course
have the following measurements - arms>14.25", chest >41.25", thigh > 24", waist stay below 35". Increase squat > 215 lbs, bench > 180 lbs
Use CT one lift a day template with triple progression as a base program. Cardio and light conditioning on other training days
run mass made simple at least once without changing the program
Pay off an additional $5,000 worth of credit cards
complete MITx Introduction to computer science using python and computational thinking and data science courses on Edx
I read this, and then in a different thread saw that your daughter is not even 2 y.o. yet. Whatās the plan on teaching her to swim?
Me and my siblings are babies. Our dad grew up on the banks of the Missouri and was in the water as often as he could be. Somehow weāve all been terrified of putting our heads under water until much later than 2 y.o. My son is pretty much the exact same age as your daughter and Iād like to get him started earlier than I was willing to be.
I have a 4yo son who loves swimming/loves the water ā¦ still not very strong but weāre taking him to the beach and pools often and just reinforcing good form/technique; also have been taking him to the Y for swim lessons for the better part of 2 yearsā¦
Iād suggest introducing you son to structured swimming (a la at the YMCA or some other structured instruction). Kids are tough to teach anything to considering their attention span is pretty abysmal.
Really boils down to introducing good techniques and then reinforce as much as possible in a controlled manner.
My sonās improved significantly over the past 6 months but he still struggles on his own. Took him to the beach this past weekend and it seems that some of the lessons finally clicked (kept his butt up in the water, kicked and stroked, etc) - he put all the individual lessons together and actually swam independently for a few yards between my wife and I.
Itās a process and most kids arenāt going to be great swimmers over night, so manage your expectationsā¦
I was swimming a little after 2 without floaties with close adult supervision. My daughter is 21 months now.
She has a love for water like I did / do.
Honestly just getting them in the water and working with them / spending a lot of time with them in the water. I started off with a kiddie pool I could get deep enough to let her float in but she can also stand up in it.
I have a pool with a shallow end that goes up to about her waist when she is standing and has jets that come out of the water like a water park.
Mid year updates:
Not far into my Buddhist studies yet. There is a lot of history to get through first.
Starting a comic book collection - fun and maybe a way to make a few extra bucks (if it doesnāt go right back into the collection).
Workouts are going well I am putting a good amount of size on thanks to the Surge Challenge.
Ongoing goals:
Improve mental health - I realized that I need to speak with a therapist, my antidpressants arenāt cutting it.
Read at least 4 nights/week to my daughters.
wowā¦ my goals were over optimistic. I did not hit 3x bodyweight deadlift and I donāt think 160kg is going to happen. 120 kg squat might happen, but thatāll be end of 2023
Academicallyā¦ My project failed. Iām not going to get a paper submitted by the time I graduate. However, I have/am working on a couple of practicioner papers and will be speaking on a webinar to executives
Life, I did not do much readingā¦ Did go off campus though
All of the welders I employ can tig very well, but not everyone gets to tig aluminum. Itās not easy. We do 80%ish tig and 20% mig. I may post some pics from work sometime, if anyone is interested. I have some really excellent welders at my shop.
Environmental consulting. My actual assigned ratio is 75%. I do a lot of proposals and technical work, so havenāt actually met that 75% for a few years. Field staff typically have assigned ratios of 90%.
