My goals

The point of this blog is to track my journey as I go after my goals for the next seven and a half years.

Before I list what they are, there are two books I am currently reading which have inspired me to start this blog in the first place:

1. Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things
2. The $150M secret: turning $1000 into a $150,000,000 company in 3.5 years

Peak has / is inspiring me because I have always had all sorts of projects and ideas going, and I’m always trying to read ten books at a time. My problem is I rarely see things through all the way as I get discouraged or bored. My idea is to apply the key principle of this book, deliberate practice, to all my goals. The blog is a long term thing, seven and a half years, and arguably gives enough time to achieve all of them.

Which leads to the second book, the $150M secret, which talks about recording what you do. What better place to record this than in this blog? Achieving what this book itself talks about, building a company, is also one of my goals.

So with that explanation aside, here are the main goals I’m aiming for over the next seven and a half years.

Mental improvements

1. $150M company (not literally a $150M company, but I call it this to signify a very successful one (not just a side hustle for example, but one making a decent profit with a number of employees))
2. Learn Spanish
3. Learn Mandarin
4. Learn the piano
5. Be a good father
6. Be a good partner
7. Cooking good meals with improvised ingredients
8. Get comfortable with loud noise and general chaos
9. Master my inner life, paying attention to what I want and using my brain rather than vice versa

Physical improvements

1. Good muscles to look athletic
2. Low body fat
3. Straight white teeth

Power improvements

1. At ease and good at public speaking
2. The $150M company I built and all the contacts and public speaking I do as a result
3. Stand to be mayor of a town

Looking through this list, I think it is ambitious. The $150M company is a facilitator for a lot of the above (80% of the results). So this will receive a lot of my attention with deliberate practice.