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Goals

A collection of 28 issues

2020 Q3 Reflection and Q4 Planning

This is a routine review of my progress toward my 2020 New Year’s Resolutions. I engage in this review process quarterly. You can find Q1’s review here, and Q2’s review here. Summary For Q3, I give myself a C: * Started consulting for Karat * Took on 2 students

2020 Q2 Reflection and Q3 Planning

This is a routine review of my progress toward my 2020 New Year’s Resolutions. I engage in this review process quarterly. You can find Q1’s review here. Summary For Q2, I give myself a C/C+: * Not a huge amount of progress on my own projects * Completed consulting

2020 Q1 Goal Review (COVID-19 Edition)

Re-aligning It’s crazy to say, but the world has changed a lot in the 3 months since I wrote and published my 2020 goals. Two rather large events have affected my world and, I think, the world at large: * The acquittal of Donald Trump by the US Senate, and

2020 New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year from Taipei, Taiwan!! For quite a few years now, I’ve been writing out my annual goals and publishing them here on this blog. I’m going to skip the usual preface, as it’s getting repetitive, but suffice to say that it’s been a good

2019 End of Year Review

If you’re looking for my 2020 New Year’s Resolutions, you can find them here. Without looking at my goals, I want to say that qualitatively 2019 has been a decent year. I spent time in 6 countries (including my brief stays in the US), made a few new

2019 New Year's Resolutions

Since 2016, I’ve been writing down my annual goals and sharing them here to keep myself accountable. Since then, the process has evolved and a good number of these self-promises have been fulfilled–like completing an Ironman, taking a more authentic tack in my career, or challenging myself to

2018 End of Year Review

Reflections Truthfully, I’ve struggled with what to say about 2018. It’s been a strange and challenging year, less certain and less structured than any to date. I didn’t exactly accomplish what I set out to–2018 wasn’t the year that my business ventures took off, nor

How and Why I Ended up at a Buddhist Monastery

As a self-professed agnostic, I’m not a terribly religious, spiritual, or superstitious person. In fact, I’ve spent much of my life incredibly skeptical of both religions and religious practitioners. My skepticism was so strong that if you had told me 5 years ago that I would one day

2017 End of Year Review

Being honest with myself, I think I missed the mark in 2017–and that’s OK! I had some pretty ambitious goals and I had a lot of goals. I stretched myself attempting to complete them, and learned a lot in the process. A lot of great things also happened

2018 New Year's Resolutions

At the end of each year I take some time to reflect and to write out new goals and resolutions for the coming year. This exercise is about more than just the goals themselves, though–it’s about really taking a moment to check-in on my growth and to find