New Year Goals 2 Month Update

It’s two months to the day that I posted my initial goals. Since then, I’ve updated some of my goals, failed a few and, I’m on track to accomplish more.

1. Get Into a Great College

• Get Straight A’s (A Range)

  Second trimester grades are in. My grades increased as a whole, but I still failed to get everything into the A range because one grade dipped.

• Get Outstanding SAT Scores (and only have to take them once)

  Got my scores back from the first time and I did well, but math and writing were lower than normal so I’m going to be retaking them on March 8th. This is the last time.

2. Get Really Fit

• Finish out the Wrestling season with a positive record

  Failed this one. I ended up going 13-16. I did place at both Ivies and States. I should have finished 3rd at Ivies, but I blew a match I had in the bag.

• Be Able to do 15 Pullups

  No real progress, I need to do this on offdays.

• Be able to run a 10K/ Run a sub 24 minute 5k

  I’ve been doing some stationary cycling but no jogging. I’ve been focusing more on lifting.

• Increase lifting numbers

  Lift numbers are getting back to what they were pre-wrestling season. I’m eating a lot and breaking plateaus. My form on deadlift suffers when I get above 200 so I need deload and focus on form.

3. Have someone pay to use a SAAS I built

I’ve moved away from building my own SAAS. Instead I’m working with two friends on butlr, a project that won the hackTrin hackathon. This one is looking good. I’m also continuing freelance web development and just got a new contract.

4. Finish my reading list / Read 20 Books

I finished Short History of Nearly Everything and I’m working on Devil in the White City along with the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I need to pick up the pace but free time is limited.

5. Start making music again

This was one I added after the blog post. I want to start playing guitar again and also learn how to make beats. This has been going fine but, once again, it’s not the first thing I want to do when I have free time.

As far as no 0 days go, I always accomplish something, but I still feel like I’m wasting time that could be put towards accomplishing these goals. So far, this year has been going great.

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