Introduction

2018 has been a year so different from the others! This year I showed myself that I am capable of doing many things, that I am strong, it taught me that you make your life yourself, that you have to build a life based on who you are and what you believe. He taught me that I am the only one responsible for my life, my emotions and my feelings. He taught me that I have to be responsible with myself and with others. I closed cycles and started others. I met very important people for my personal and professional growth, without a doubt, I will always take them as a reference and I will talk about them wherever I go. Since I learned a lot.

It was a year full of lessons, without a doubt, the year where I have learned the most. I realized that emotional life goes hand in hand with professional life, it is important to be emotionally healthy and cultivate yourself every day so that this is reflected in all areas. With everything I learned in 2018, I want to start 2019 with clear purposes and goals. At the end of the year I will come back to this article to review my progress. And if I am still alive and able, I will write another article for 2020. Now, what we came for:

Purposes

I have classified my purposes into categories:

Professional

1. Priority, improve my level of English, reaching conversational level.

2. Improve the use of the Symfony framework (there is a course on Udemy that looks great)

3. Attend at least one meetup every two months on programming and foreign language next year.

4. Reach an intermediate level in the ReactJS framework.

Staff

1. Make at least 4 trips outside my apartment.

2. Read and educate myself about personal finances, watching videos or reading an article related to the topic daily.

3. Get up at 6:30 AM every day, except for Sundays.

4. Watch at least three motivational videos per week.

5. Make friends in the new city where I’m going to live all this year.

Finance

This category is new, when I made this post in 2017, I did not know the importance of personal finances. In the end, I have set a savings goal of USD 220 per month, divided like this:

1. Save for personal incidents at least USD 100 per month.

2. For travel, I must save a minimum of USD 30 per month.

3. I want to change my motorcycle, to do so I need to save a total of USD 700, from this month until August. That is, I have 8 months to save this amount of money. Monthly I must save USD 80.

4. Cut unnecessary expenses to be able to save more easily and make ends meet in a controlled and worry-free way. (I must get off the Internet + TV plan to have Internet + Cell Phone Minutes).

5. Save USD 10 per month for my motorcycle insurance expense, this year I did not plan this expense and it turned out to be extremely expensive.

6. Continue saving the 1000 pesos and 500 pesos coins in the piggy bank that I have designated for this (I started saving coins almost a year ago).

7. In October, start my home savings plan.

Health

1. Go to the company gym where I work at least 3 times a week.

2. Be judicious with the vitamins I have and haven’t started yet.

3. Eat 5 times a day, increasing protein.

4. Meditate at least three times a week.

Couple

1. Make the most of the time I have with my partner, since now we are going to be a little distanced due to city issues.

2. Travel as a couple at least the 4 trips I will take this year.

Family

1. See my little sister more often.

2. Continue helping my older sister with the university topics she needs.

3. Come to the city to see my grandmother and dad at least 3 times a month.

Hobbies

1. I haven’t seen a Studio Ghibli or similar movie in a long time, which is why I haven’t written reviews about it again. The goal is to watch at least one Japanese animated film per month.

2. Write on the blog at least once a month.

3. Follow an interesting series that allows me to reinforce listening in the English language.

Compliance record

Back in 2017, I wrote a similar article to this one, with the resolutions for that year, I have updated the article to keep track of those that I already fulfilled, there are resolutions from that year 2017, that I could not fulfill (as expected), but I passed them the year 2018 immediately. In 2018, I didn’t have much time to write, therefore, the resolutions for that year were written on paper, although that year was crazy, it never crossed my mind that I was going to learn and experience so many things.

Conclusions

It has already become a kind of tradition, writing down the resolutions I will have for the new year, it is always good to write them down so that you don’t lose your way during these new twelve months. So I encourage you to do the same, on your blog or on a sheet of paper, make it visible and remember what you are working for, so that every day you get closer to your purposes. I would like to read what you have proposed, below in the comments. A hug and happy new year!

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