I've been pretty big on New Year's resolutions in the past, and this year I'm bringing them back. The only difference here is that I plan on laying out concrete plans to accomplish all of my resolutions. I've recently found (and written about)n how goals often go go unaccomplished without the proper planning to make them happen. So here we go: plans and goals for the next year broken down into different aspects of my life.
Professional Life:
Since the last time I was truly devoted to this blog I made some big time career changes. When I first moved to Israel I dabbled in the changes I wanted to make, and eventually settled on continuing in the path of education, and even opening up my own school for English tutoring. I had a business running where I would go from home to home, and it sustained me for a little while.
After a short while I realized that riding my bike from house to house was only a temporary fit, and that for financial and professional fulfillment purposes I had to find a different way. So I started working at a private English school, and although I found it enjoyable and the students appreciative, the work environment, schedule, and lack or a challenge pushed me in the direction of seeking a change.
And wouldn't you know it; a student of mine offered to help me find a new job by breaking into the field of sales. Sure I had worked in sales before while in University (I called alumni and attempted to garner donations from them); however, it had been a while and I never saw it turning into a real career for me. After interviewing and speaking to a few trusted family members and professionals I realized that my preconceptions about sales (that sleazy used car salesman) didn't match up at all with high tech, where sales is both a respected and often lucrative field.
So here we are, a year and change later, and I'm still working as a salesman for a budding high tech startup. I've worked extremely hard this past year, and I've learned a lot about both the field of web design and about working in an office environment, as the bulk of my work experience to date had been either in retail or in schools. It's been great, and I've felt a lot of growth; however I refuse to be content. From here I want to make the jump to a management position and to continue leaning and growing as a professional in the field.
The pursuit of a management position and advancement with my day job is the first of my new year's resolutions. My concrete plan is to lay out a time plan for meeting with my boss and deadlines for when I need to have my promotion. It's also important for me to document my production and achievements to have documented reasons for my desired promotion.
In addition to making a career change to sales, I've also partnered up with one of my co-workers to begin working in the field of affiliate marketing. I'm in charge of the content and we are working on niche-marketing websites that link to Amazon.com, making us amazon affiliates. My goal with my side business is to continue producing content every week so that our websites can become profitable as soon as possible. So far I've completed about one article and one blog post per week, and I want to stay at at least that pace if not ramping it up.
Personal Life:
This part of my personal life is just for me. I say that because I have a partner (I'm engaged, what?!) and I also have goals to do with my relationship where I hope to grow.
The first goal is something that I've always done, but have mostly been inconsistent with and that's physical fitness. Most people would still say I'm generally fit, and often find myself running a couple of times a week, yet I want to make something that's more structured, and I think that starts with a gym membership. I've been hesitant to subscribe to a gym in Tel Aviv because they're both expensive and small, yet I've come to realize that I greatly miss exercise when I go away from it.
Once I move into my new apartment I'll have to get a gym membership or free weights for the house, as I know that both will greatly pay off for me. I had the most success with exercising at home combined with running and eating healthy, and I'll have to see if I stick to that routine or go back to a gym. We'll have to see, as the new apartment may not have ample space for exercise (hoping it will).
In addition I want to continue writing and reading for myself. I find that I too often waste time watching TV shows and would much rather be exercising my mind with reading and writing. I've already set myself a goal of one blog post per week as a minimum. Maybe I should say one book per month? Ok done, one book per month and one blog post per week, very doable.
Maybe I'll just stick with that for now. I was thinking about things to do in my relationship, but we'll have enough projects together this coming year. Besides moving in together and setting up a home, we'll be planning a wedding. I'm sure that I'll have plenty of sub goals within these two large endeavors; however, I will say that I want to make sure to respect my partners wishes and be completely supportive and team oriented throughout the whole process. Both looking for an apartment and planning a wedding can be extremely stressful, and I want to make sure that I stay as calm as possible.
In addition I want to make sure that I'm reading at least one new book per month and publishing at least one blog post per week. These things are just for my own enrichment in regards to my love of reading and writing, and I'd rather spend my free time doing the things that I love as opposed to watching another TV to just fill the time or waste half an hour on Facebook or Instagram.
So there we have it, some concrete resolutions. Time to go make them happen! Excuse spelling and/or grammar mistakes; feeling lazy today.
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