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My Goals 2026

January 5, 2026 #notes

Here are my goals for 2026, I usually like to do SMART goals, aka specific, measurable, achieveable, relevant, and time bound.

🎯 Outcomes based goals

  • 100K followers
  • 3 Award/Grant/Fellowship/Trip
  • $10K MRR for Cleve
  • $10K/month income
  • Get into SF/Trip to SF
  • Read 24 books
  • Start 1 social iniative
  • 5 paid talks
  • 5 brand deals

The problem with this is these metric are outcome based and not fully under my control.

So instead, I'll convert these SMART outcome goals into a action based goals to achieve those outcome. For example: get 100K followers -> post every day.

In my case, here are my action-based items for the goal above:

🏃 Action based goals

  • write everyday

    • finish a thought piece every week, turn into -> text post or carousel, video

      • decision: (hire someone to convert thought piece to posts?) / automate

  • post once a week

  • apply to an award/grant every month

    • search and list down awards every 3 months

  • Read 1 pages of non-fiction every day

Method

based on the annual reflections i have. Here are some improvements that I think can help

Productivity

✅ Only accept paid speaking engagements (except high profile/pro-bono event)

🤔Hire a slide designer for talks?

✅ Unsubscribe BUMP Climbing Gym

🤔Subscribe to Evolveflex Fitness?

🤔 Buy an iphone/android

🤔Buy a macbook air

✅ Track habits properly

  • HabitDone apps for habit, Hardcover for books, Hevy for workout, Letterboxd for movie,

Content

🤔 Hire a social media editor/manager

✅ Setup buffer & auto schedule to X, Thread, Mastodon, Instagram, Twitter

✅ Bulk create thought piece or content scripts

Task Lists

Grant/Award/Fellowship

  • List 10 grants / iniative
  • apply to mozilla foundation fellowship (deadline 30 Jan)

Content

  • set up blog system
  • write content plan/calendar
  • setup buffer with my account