2024 will be yours 🎊

Every new year, many people make resolutions and do their best in the first days, and weeks to keep it up, but it usually ends very quickly. How do you properly plan a year and simultaneously fulfill goals?

Last year for me was extremely efficient according to my level of discipline. According to my notes, I had:

• over 200 days without any portion of sugar,
• over 150 training sessions,
• accomplished multiple courses,
• made a few projects,
• handled full-time dev job with military service,
• visited 8 countries,
• and many more

Tip No 1 - Note

There are a few methods of noting your days, progress, habits, training, etc. One of my favorite methods is a mix of tools.

Last year I started with 4 months of bullet journal and it was amazing. bullet journal methods based on handwriting in a notebook with your dedicated content. There are no limits to strictly creating a template of a calendar or whatever. The template is created by the owner of a bullet journal. More about this method you can find here.

Bullet journal for my personal use, covers the calendar, daily journaling, noting tasks, tracking habits, organizing business targets, and storing ideas.

The digital way of storing data is in my second brain in notion (soon it will be published as I promised months ago).

The second brain covers the P.A.R.A method and allows to quickly and effortlessly capture data from a browsed page.

Extremely important in terms of keeping resolutions and fulfilling goals is proper planning which will increase productivity. The main problem is when you do not know what to do and when. The casual to-do list only solves the problem of what to do. The most efficient way is to use a time-blocking.

The app which do it easily is a cron. Moreover, it connects with a Google calendar, so it is extremely powerful.

Tip No 2 - Forgive yourself

Failures just happen, everyone is just a human. If you waste one hour in a day or one day in a week, is it a reason to stop progressing?

Tip No 3 - Gamification

Probably every person who was born in the computer era likes games, so why not play a game with yourself?

The following patent is inspired by Andy Frisella, the successful entrepreneur.

Every day make a list with 5 things to accomplish. All tasks should depend on you and completing them all should take max 4 hours. Moreover, these tasks should every day make you closer to your goals.

If you complete all 5 tasks in a day, you write W as a Win. If you do not complete a day, write F as a failure. If you win in 6 days in a week you win a week. Easy enough?

The next step is to make every 2 weeks a revision if the tasks are making you closer to fulfilling goals, if yes you continue, if not you have to change tasks. Each day you can have different tasks.

Moderndev.io

At the end of last year, I decided to make a platform that will consist of courses, code snippets, tutorials, and many more in an easy way to absorb that knowledge.

The platform is hosted as moderndev.io and is still being developed, probably till the end of the month.

You can look around the platform and contribute here.

Tweet of the week

Marc Lou is a true inspiration in the solopreneurship area. He just decided to make projects and sell them, one project a month. This idea was crazy, but one success can change life.

Book of the week

"How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie

This book is probably the best lecture I have ever read. It is not about some manipulation methods that make anyone cool enough to have a lot of colleagues.

The author presents multiple examples of what happened in the past and describes in a convenient way how to be just a good, honorable man who will not have problems with communication with others.

One of my favorite thoughts indicates that we should all avoid engaging in serious arguments, cause there are no winners, even if you win an argument, you lose. It is because you can make another person change his mind by negative emotions.

New project

Last month I decided to check Marc Lou's path and start building real projects, then sell them on different platforms, like Gumroad.

On my social media, you can see that I started to share some work from building NotionFlow.

The simple boilerplate allows for the shipping of fast apps, landing pages, and SaaS with Notion as a CMS. The entire journey I will publish here in the next newsletter.

Thank you for reading, see you next time 🎊