Goals, Habits & Rules for 2021

Goals

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• Publish 6 long-form research essays ~ This is my most important professional goal. I believe that writing on the internet has so much leverage power in all sorts of ways.
• Publish 12 times on kentdebruin.com
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• Launch a new design studio
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• Build a quantified self dashboard ~ This implies learning how API's work so I can connect all my data sources like Oura, Strava or bank transactions to one Airtable (?) dashboard.
• Improve my programming knowledge significantly
• Have an in-depth conversation (60 min +) with 25 interesting people I have never met before ~ Julian Lehr inspired me for this one.
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• Redesign and rebuild kentdebruin.com
• Build an automatic budgeting spreadsheet
• Spend a week in nature without internet
• Publish my public Are.na research on my website

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Habits & Rules

• No internet before 10:00 ~ I block all distracting websites and email via an app called Freedom
• No outside meetings before 13:00 ~ This way I keep my morning open for creative work.
• No social media on Sundays ~ Again blocked via Freedom
• A weekly review on Sunday evening
• A quarterly review with friends ~ Every 90 days I want to look back and set new priorities
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• Plan sport at least 3x per week
• Read 18 books ~ You can follow my progress on Goodreads
• Run 52 times ~ Follow me Strava
• Surf 10 times
• Write 100 days in a row ~ Together with some friends I write daily on Write Together
• Limit meat consumption to 24 meals
• Break all routines, goals and habits for at least two weeks ~ unlimited dooms scrolling, plenty of steaks and chicken, and absolutely zero planning.

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*Take this list with a grain of salt. I'm not a robot, and things happen (like a pandemic)