Hello ! I'm Xavier Jouvenot and this is my third blog post on Hashnode, and also the third for the Writeathon "4 Articles in 4 Weeks"! And this time, I chose the subject "I want to build [....] because [....]", so we are going to get personal talk about my personal goals, to get in the same mood as the student going back to school in my country π§βπ
A little review on my past goals
Like a lot of people, at the beginning of the year, I set some goals for myself, and probably like a lot of people, I've had some relative success towards those goals. π
I've actually set 3 goals to myself:
- To build a better physique and improve my health
- I can say that I have reach the first goal, since I am now at the weight I want, but I need to work on being more consistent at going to the gym.π
- To build more content on my personal blog, by writing 3 articles per week
- For this goal, I have far less good results... I have actually maintained the rhythm of 3 article per week for 3 months until I start feeling a little burned out, which triggered a long period of me not writing anything and not improving in this area until the start of the Writeathon "4 Articles in 4 Weeks", which I used as an excuse to go back to writing, and to force myself to write 4 articles (struggling a little bit for this article actually, fighting the urge to procrastinate, but I will submit it on time βοΈ π)
- To get into freelancing
- I am slowly reaching this goal, as it took the first 5 months of the year in order to have all the legal authorizations from the company I work for, to be able to remain an employee and accumulate Freelancer status. Now that this first step has been achieved, I am building my online presence and my portfolio, in order to show people what I can offer to them. π οΈ
What I plan for the rest of this year
As you may have guessed with my goal from earlier this year, my main goal now, is to build a better blog and portfolio.
To achieve this ambitious goal, I will need to improve myself, my communication and my writing skills which are far from being my strong attributes for now. But I have a plan ! π€
The first part of my plan to build this great blog and portfolio is to be able to create some content on my blog consistently. I will achieve this by completing some Hashnode challenges (like the Writeathon "4 Articles in 4 Weeks" π) and write some series of articles with some themes, so that I won't have to wait for the inspiration about an idea for an blog post, but focus more on the quality of the article themselves. I actually have already two series ideas that I will start to work on, once I will have submitted all the articles for the Writeathon π
The second part of my plan is to start analyzing how well the articles I write are going, and connect with some other writers in the tech industry to see what they are doing to write such nice articles. I will also try to integrate some tools in my writing process in order to improve the quality of the articles I will write, and the ones already available on my personal website! Actually, if you know some tools which could help me, feel free to let a comment π The same goes if you want to connect, or just to show some support βΊοΈ
While working on my blog and portfolio, I will also work on 2 other goals:
- I am going to continue maintaining more Chocolatey packages, as I want to improve my skill with this technology. I actually have found a nice system to keep improving in that goal combining the use of Todoist and GitHub Project
- I am starting a new side project about improving/facilitating code quality for developers around the world, to 10x my capacity to help people to code better. I am still in the early stage of this project, since I am still defining exactly what the main features of this project are going to be. But this projects feels me with a lot of motivation and good vibes βΊοΈ
And after that ?...
Well, to achieve all those goals and even to make significant progress towards them, it will take some time.
And by the end of the year, I will definitely need to make a point to evaluate my progress on each of those goals.
But those goals won't ever really be achieved. Indeed, a blog can always be updated and the writing skills can always be improved. And it will probably still be my focus next year too, and I hope you will be able to read and enjoy my future articles π
Thank you all for reading this article,
And until my next article, have a wonderful day π
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