I have been doing weekly reviews of my goals but the quarterly reviews really help to see the current progress with respect to the goal. It helps you to either replan or find another route towards the goal. It also gives you a chance to look at your goals through “the priority of life” lens. Things that you thought were important to you at the beginning of the year, are they still on that priority, or not?
I am very consciously making sure that I am posting my progress here on my website for the world to see. It serves two purposes. One – is that it holds me accountable to share honest progress with the world and Second- it inspires someone else to start on the journey of self-improvement.
Before we move ahead, in case you want to read what were my thoughts about this year on January 24, here is my previous article for reference.
Reflection of 2023 and The Plans for 2024
Now, without any further ado, let’s dive into the review –
What went well?
Out of all the habits, I have planned only 2 habits have done well at the end of Q1.
- Book reading
- I have ensured that I am reading 10 pages at least per day. At least 85% of the time I am reading and meeting my target. Sometimes, if I have missed my reading, I ensure, I cover it up by reading extra on the other days. This has been helping me complete my books on time.
- I have consistently been reading books. I have finished 3 books already – 5 Sec Rule; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; समिधा
- My habit scores for reading are also 85%
- Professional Career- I have been promoted in my profession. (Yeei Me!!). I have been given additional responsibilities at the job that makes my work day more hectic than usual. It has been tough to manage my habits and profession. I wish to get more efficient at my job so I can spend some mental bandwidth on my habits.
What needs improvement?
The Most Adventurous Project
- I embarked on a few adventurous projects such as patent building on a new, lightweight wheelchair. Now I know this is the most important project, I would surely like to develop. I have done a bit of research on the new wheelchair technologies around the world as well but I am not able to get enough time to document requirements for new wheelchairs. Considering the new job responsibilities, I have decided to pause this goal for a while.
- At this juncture of my career, I have decided to put some more effort toward developing the new skills required for my job hence I have paused this project for a while. The moment, I get accustomed to my job, I will reopen this and ensure, I have some progress to report on it.
Health Parameters
- All my health parameters i.e. habits related to the health parameters have gone south. I am overweight. I want to maintain the weight of 68 kg and aim at 65 Kg but unfortunately, I have got into 69 kg. I want to reduce it to 68 Kg first and then start my journey toward 65. This happened due to 2 main reasons.
- My lack of structured exercise and lack of control on diet. If someone is going to break the diet 21 times in 98 days (78.5%) adherence, this is surely not good at all. I have had a lot of sweets in the recent months. I have had lots of junk food as well. My exercise of 25 mins, was of very low intensity and had no direct impact on my weight.
- Actions–
- of course, the strict control on diet would be exercise from this quarter onwards. I would remind myself of the weight gain before I decide to break my diet.
- I have started to wear my smart watch and capture my exercises. I get to know which exercises are helping me improve the intensity of the exercise. I have seen the benefit of using a wheelchair for running. It helps me elevate my heart rate.
- considering my goal of only 10 times drinking in a year, I must monitor this habit carefully as well.
- Article publishing on my website. I wanted to publish one article per week. So far the year 2024 has been an eventful year. I am faced with newer issues at a personal and professional level. This impacted me from writing articles with a free mind. I have decided to write my blogs during my journal entries as well.
- Action
- I have another article pending to be written as well. I should ensure I am putting pen to paper often. I don’t want to overcomplicate the matter. I have started with an aim to improve my writing and I will do that. Honestly, I have seen my professional writing has improved because I have been practicing writing at a personal level.
So as you can see, a lot of room for improvement. I will ensure my focus will not change in the next quarter and I promise to share much better Q2 results better than Q1.
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