2026 Goals
2026 Goals
2026 is the year that I finally change my entire personality. I am going to be focused, energetic, and driven.
I know that’s total bullshit, so I am aiming low and making some goals that I have been able to achieve before. Hopefully that means the process is familiar and I have a high likelihood of actually achieving most of these things.
Write 12 blog posts. 1 per month.
✅ So far, so good.
Read 12 books. 1 per month.
I stopped reading when my life started to feel busy all the time. I would like to regain that feeling of freedom. Being more intentional about what I read for enjoyment instead of reading mostly articles.
I am already running out of time for the first month. I need to get to the library and power through a novel this weekend. Or maybe I should read one of these books sitting on bookshelf that I have never opened.
Deliver 2 projects for work this year that I wasn’t asked to do.
Find something that would be useful and build it. So many times in the last couple years I have had a good idea and just let it go by because I already felt busy. It just wasn’t worth the extra effort to make that slight improvement at work. Now, with agentic coding, I should be able to add some value without a large amount of effort on my part.
Create the home office that I want. Make it beautiful.
I have been day dreaming about doing this for years. Its about damn time.
Complete 4 personal projects.
One per quarter. I have already started on the first one. A habit tracker that runs in the terminal! That should help me achieve some of these other things.
Get Jacked.
Hell ya, brother! I haven’t gained weight since I was 25, but I have gotten a lot softer since then. Plus it would be nice to stop feeling so stiff all the time.
Learn how to type, Increase WPM to above 100.
I never learned how to type properly. This year I would like to unlearn the bad hybrid style of typing that I unintentionally taught myself over the years and actually figure out how to do it properly.
Drop my golf handicap to below 12.
I went from 20 to 16 last year. Each stroke dropped will be incrementally harder, so I think this will actually be the most challenging and therefore most rewarding. Even if this has no meaningful benefit to my life. It should feel good.
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