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Halfway Through 2019! New Years' Goals/Resolutions Check-In

Rachel Soderberg on July 05, 2019

I always ring in the new year with several goals - I don't believe in dramatic resolutions, but I find it helpful to set the pace for the coming y...
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Timothy McGrath

I love setting year long goals as well. As well as monthly goals to support them.

This year, I'm making good progress.

I finished a 10k last month in under 8 min/mile.
I'm almost done with a big Azure DevOps migration.
I'm deep into learning the ins and outs of microservices.
And I'm on track to pay off student loans.

I wanted to read 12 classics this year, but completely failed so far.
I also wanted to build more of a creator presence rather than consumer (blog, GitHub, etc.), but haven't gotten too far.

I got more work to do...

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Rachel Soderberg

That's a great start, and sounds like you've got some good momentum going! Congratulations on being on track for student loans payoff - I got my private loan done but still have awhile before all of it's gone.

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Lautaro Lobo

Well, I had some simple goals, finish some course on BitDegree or Udemy, and/or Free Code Camp, keep posting content on my website and go well with the subjects at my Computer Science degree that I'm chasing.

First one, almost done (final projects on FCC, hoping to finish some other course during the year).
Second one, doing it fine this far.
Third one, well, tough times are coming, a bunch of math is waiting for me on the upcoming weeks, but until now no big deal has presented.

So, as you said, so far so good!