2022 Goals

This article lays out the nine things I want to accomplish and habits I want to build in 2022.

Over the past few years my annual goal-setting strategy has shifted from spazzing out over bucket list items and finish lines (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018), to a much healthier, deeper, and more sustainable focus on behavioral goals (2019, 2020 and 2021).

In other words, it’s less about the endings, outcomes and payoffs, and more about the journey and the type of person you become in the process.

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2021 Recap

My personal annual report for 2021 is broken down into the following sections:

1. Year in review
2. Goals results
3. Media diet (Principles, News, Podcasts, and Books I read in 2021)
4. Inspiration (Pick up the extra weight; Keep yourself mystified; Meaning contagion; New connections to mythology mobility; Hiking is not about the views; Only positive empty gestures allowed; and Creativity requires detailed planning)

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2020 Goals

The 10 big things I want to get done this year.

I’ve been posting my annual list of goals since 2013, and it’s featured Ironman triathlons, epic hikes, Rubik’s Cubes, reading, writing and arithmetic, to name a few.

This year’s list is a slight shift from many of my previous lists: I’m making habitual, sustainable behavioral changes more of a focus, rather than one-time, bucket-list style accomplishments.

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