What will you accomplish in 2019?

[MJ DeMarco]

Not a New Year's Resolution thread, but a mere proclamation of what you will accomplish in 2019.

List one thing, or many.

Whatever you resolve to do.

Please keep your proclamation measurable!

Lose weight is not measurable, lose 50 lbs is!
Start a business is not measurable, sell X units is!

This time next year, we will bump this thread and see how things went!

I'll start:

I will release at LEAST one book in 2019, either under the Unscripted nameplate or other.

This might not seem to be a big proclamation, but for me it is. My history shows that I take anywhere from 3 to 5 years to write and publish something. I'd like actually take my writing time down to less than 1 year and time to market in under 6 months.

Also, if you posted in this thread AND have a progress thread, please include and link to it!!

Thank you!

 

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[G-Man]

Not doing yearly goals anymore, but here are the 12 wk goals for the 12 week period that started yesterday:

• Lose 30 lbs - get back to the diet I was on earlier in the year
• increase monthly net on my ebay store from 1200 to 5k

 

[TLO]

Great that this thread has actually allowed us to peak into a lot of different lives and stories. Some of happenings here, I had no idea! Awesome to hear it what's already happening, and what will happen.



Wow, congrats! We need to hear your story!

Ok, I will keep it as short as I can. It is a slow lanner becoming a fast lanner. As a single parent kid growing up on food stamps, government cheese, and living in the projects I always had a deep desire to move up the socio-economic latter and prove myself so I became a physician although I have always had the entrepreneur mindset. Coming out of medical school and residency I realized I was not employable (you entrepreneurs out there know what I mean) so I started my own clinic. I knew I wanted more than what a typical doctors lifestyle was (work crazy hours and be a mega consumer). Physicians are paid per thing they do...….procedure or seeing a patient. In a lot of ways, being a doctor is like being a plumber. When you are a plumber......if you fix a drain, it takes time and are paid per drain to fix. There are only so many drains you can fix in a day as a plumber (as a physician there are only so many patients you can see in a day). Now the smart plumber is one who knows his trade well then hires plumbers to work underneath him....... This is what I have done as a physician. I wanted to be the plumber who has plumbers underneath him. Currently I have 4 offices and I focus on making our business special. My goal, as I am a very specialized, is to grow this company to the point that I can sale it within the next 4 years. I already have one offer but think I could double that offer in 2 years. May sell then. But even if I don't want to get rid of my business , I continually try to eliminate myself in it so that I will continue to have an income forever and need to be present minimally. A couple of trials of this I have done like taking 1 month vacations at a time......it feels great to leave your business for 1 month and return with your numbers actually increasing.

I hope this was helpful. Of note, I was able to pay off my home this year because as my income has transformed over the past couple of years (topped 2M this year), I have lived off of the same income that I started with and eliminated 300K in student debt (slow lane stupid mistakes). I built my families dream home and paid it off with a 600K check. Today, as I was running and listening to Unscripted , it was at the part about FU money. I can relate to what MJ said with not dealing with a bank for your home. It feels great.

Lastly, it is funny how you can make so many stupid mistakes in the slow lane but when you take action and get into the fast lane you can erase a lot of those mistakes.

 

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[Timmy C]

By January 1st 2020 I want my bank balance at $24,000.

Get my business to a point where my return on time for money is greater than that of my job and build it to a point where I can quit altogether. Just not having to get up to an alarm clock and be told what to do will be like heaven on earth.

 

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[Almantas]

Accomplish in 2 days more than I currently accomplish in entire week - this is related to business, fitness, personal development and other.

This will be accomplished by supercharging my discipline, taking superb care of myself (spiritually, physically, mentally, etc.), changing my circle of friends, automating/outsourcing redundant tasks and concentrating on 80/20 rule.

 

[Guest61362]

• Decrease monthly consumer spending by 15% (950 to 780 EUR p/m average) by June. Have to pay off some gadgets and cancel a couple of subscriptions.
• Flip over my negative net worth (-2300 EUR to +2500) by June. I have a job and the debt is insured for a case of losing it.
• Have additional 500 EUR/m from internet activity I control (a hustle with number of clients, an e-comm, etc) by Dec.
• Figure out 1 or a group of new skills by solving a real problem - my own, clients or simply at job (according to this by @lowtek) – every day.

 

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[George Appiah]

The wife and Big Elvis just left the house for an "All Night Service"... so I finally have the entire house to myself and a little time to round up the year.

I have two primary goals for 2019.

First, on the personal front...

By the end of 2019, I will have written and passed the IELTS General Test with band 8 test score or better. This is a mandatory step towards my Canadian immigration quest.

Many of you will remember I was all set to join Red Academy's coding bootcamp in Vancouver in September 2018... but I was denied the visa even though I'd paid my fees in full and checked all the right boxes. I'll re-apply for the visa in May 2019... but as I don't control the outcome, there's not much to say about that as far as measurable goals are concerned.

Sometimes I envy those of you who can just pack and travel to any country you choose to, and those of you for him visa application is a mere formality

On the business front...

By the end of 2019, I will be serving 100+ web design hustlers and digital marketing agencies in my new Managed WordPress Hosting + Maintenance service I'm launching in January 2019 -- hosting and maintaining your clients' websites and providing all the technical support you and your clients can eat for one fixed, low price --- so you can focus on closing new deals and growing your business, instead of fighting with WordPress and hackers. (Execution/Progress thread coming soon)

That's just it.

 

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[Dylan in Africa]

Run a 5K each and every day. Listen to over 180 hrs of audiobooks while doing so.

 

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[Andy Black]

Q1 goals:

Health:

• Move every day: jogging, walking, skipping, or kick-boxing.
• I’ll introduce free weights again when I’ve lost the 6 pounds I gained in December, and after the craziness of January dies down at the gym.

Family:

• Get my mum moved into a rental apartment and sell or rent her house.

Wealth:

• Spend $10/day generating leads for local service businesses.
• Figure out a customer acquisition process out of it.

 

[Envision]

This year is about scaling systems to continue growing sustainably - cant just keep grinding out hours at this point.

1. Business one: 1.5M in revenue
2. Business two: 100k in revenue
3. Business three: 10 rental units (or save up 40k to purchase the remaining units)
4. Get my business degree (lol)
5. Read 30 books
6. Keep relearning french
7. Hit that 600 pound deadlift without jacking up my back
8. Hover around 205 pounds at 10% bf

Remain healthy and happy and help others do the same.

 

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[whiz]

-Gain weight to 170 (~150 now) - muscle, not fat
-Get blue belt in BJJ
-Figure out how to turn my advertisement skills into monthly rev (at least $10k)

Then take the $ to:
-Get out of my parents house (it's started to make me feel like a chump)
-Eat healthy as F*ck
-A vacation or two
-Study and take action more and more to flip this $$$

p.s.

I say "figure out" because I don't know all the specific steps, but I do know I can do $10k/mo

I currently have 4 clients but it's not the business model I want - it's the traditional "freelance AdWords guy" model.

I'm trying to figure out how to be more of a "lead broker" and set my system up, either giving the leads to the fastest/most responsive bidder or renting web properties monthly.

I know how to do everything. It's the biz model that I haven't sorted yet.

So once I get that sorted out I'll be fine

 

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[sin_tzu]

• Become debt free
• Get to $10,000 personal income/month from various income streams
• Purchase first home
• Decrease body fat percentage to 10%

Let's go!

 

[Greg R]

In 2019 I will accomplish:

1) A $250k investment round
2) Product placement in three big box stores
3) Sign up 25 Independant Gun Show Distributors ( or 100 Gun Shows attended)

 

[wade1mil]

Weigh 200 pounds with 9% body fat.
I cheated by starting two months ago, but I'm more than half way there =]

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Great that this thread has actually allowed us to peak into a lot of different lives and stories. Some of happenings here, I had no idea! Awesome to hear it what's already happening, and what will happen.

Done yesterday as I paid off my home.

Wow, congrats! We need to hear your story!

 

[MJ DeMarco]

For everyone who's contributed to this thread, please WATCH it with EMAIL updates. I will try to bump it through out the year to give you a reminder what you declared will happen!

Some awesome things gonna happen, keep 'em coming!

 

[ZF Lee]

• Vamp up my freelancing income to reach 5-figures at most, with at least 2 clients giving me steady referrals or recurring work.
• Get the real Fastlane biz rolling and hopeful get a core customer following (paying, not some email or subs bullshit) or best, break even by year's end. Will still have to take online into account (no matter how much I hate the saturation), but will consider consummables/necessities heavily, in view of the upcoming recession
• Enforce a daily evening run, around 5-6pm. I don't have weight to lose, but I do need a daily habit of physical exercise.
• Organise and consolidate my meetups, circle of friends or Fastlane-friendly groups offline this forum into 1 church cell group, 1 general business sharing, 1 business strategy, 1 accounting/finance/insurance, 1 Internet biz. If each group has 7 pax on average, maybe I'd want to provide close-up value and follow-up with the best 2, have close but nominal value-adds to the lower 2 and the rest, I treat them generally. I found that even if you treat everyone fairly, ultimately only a few will prove to be exceptional.

Lots of homework to do....

 

[Guest931Xfjyx]

My largest goals for all of 2019:

• Move to a different country (currently in the process of doing this)
• Get my own place with my girlfriend
• Keep working on my physical fitness and raise my maximum lifts on the big 5 lifts
• Really sculpt my wardrobe as I actually care quite a bit about fashion
• And most importantly -- to finally start a successful business (one that makes at least $10k+ per year passively)

I've failed 3 businesses before, one of which I spent $8k on and an entire year of effort. I've learned from my mistakes and I will continue to do so. I know I need to fail quick and to fail cheap if I absolutely must fail. I know that solving a problem that no other product currently solves when it comes to creating a business is paramount now.

I know what it takes to start a successful business. I have the knowledge.

All I need now is the capital and the idea. I will acquire both, and I will take action.

I will not let myself be unsuccessful.

 

[Primeperiwinkle]

Commit to my morning routine.

January-June
Meet 20 ppl a week to increase my small business.
Watch all the video training I have in my stockpile. (This is easily a hundred videos.)
Build out five websites (2 of mine plus three for customers) get them all ranked and earning income.
Write a blog post 2x a week.
Have ten exquisite meals that I can cook perfectly in my Instant Pot.

July-December
Leave my second supplemental job because my own business supports me in 3 days a week.
Use the other 3 days a week to replicate whatever worked for the SEO business and then start grinding hardcore.
Compile my first ebook.
Wrestle MailCheat(Chimp) down to the ground and develop my newsletter.

Some other cool stuff. Lol.

 

[Xeon]

1) Launch my business by end of Feb 2019

2) Make my first 10 sales before end of Apr 2019

3) Make a consistent stream of 50 sales monthly before end of Dec 2019

 

[Primeperiwinkle]

What does Primeperiwinkle even mean?

You better be saying this with a smile, in a friendly exasperated male type of way.

It’s my girl super hero/ feminine mystique/ beautiful poetry name of awesomeness!!!!

Sheesh. It’s totes obvious. Rofl.

 

[sparechange]

Look forward to your book!

The #1 thing for me is to ''retire''

This NY I will be slaving away for min wage, if I can STOP being reliant on a paycheck for a basic life such as food and rent thats the same as hitting the lotto.

Ive been off for a couple weeks from work and it is so ****** amazing, sleep in... noone to tell me what to do etc.

My online store just needs a measly couple thousand sales which is basically nothing, believe its possible for me to achieve.

Happy NY everyone!

 

[srodrigo]

- Make and publish two video games
- Get into the habit of meditating
- Learn a new programming language
- Write and publish one fantasy book
- Compose a set of music tracks for video games and put them on a store for developers to buy them
- Cut the list above down to two or three items, there are too many things to keep focused on something great

 

[Jeff Noel]

I was about to write "make $10K from another source than my job", but I started reading The 10X Rule, so I'll make $100K (gross) from another source than my job.

I will hold a discussion about sexual preferrences with my girlfriend every month.
I will ask different people for their uncensored thoughts about me and who I am, every month.
I will get out of my comfort zone, life wise. Let's destroy that scripted routine.
I will become debt free ($15K). How ? By using money from my job. I'm not touching anything that comes from other sources of income, unless it is to reinvest grow or learn.

I will be done reading Unscripted by the end of January, even if it means stealing it from the hands of my girlfriend (we're quite competitive on our reading choices!).

I will work out (bodyweight) 3 times per week for 52 weeks (to develop that habit again ASAP), with my objective of being able to do 100 push-ups per session easily, like I used to, 4 years ago.

Challenge my goals please - challenge me.

Edit: Have a personal cashflow of $10K (thinking 10X again) by next year, to reduce financial stress. Thanks Timmy for the idea.

 

[Rivoli]

My first year in business (2018) I did $2 million in sales, but I actually lost money from January to August.

In September I completely turned around the cost structure, and every month was profitable since then.

My goal for 2019 is to take this further

1. Increasing gross margin from 30% to 40%
2. Increasing sales from $2 million to $3.2 million
3. Increasing net margin from 8% to 15%.
4. Improving cash flow by generating a big cash reserve, increasing my credit score and getting Low interest business lines of credit of around $300,000

 

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[Gepi]

Oh wow, you all are so awesome. Would be cool to revive this thread in December, to have everyone post the results, wins and/or changes in this short bullet point style!
Ok, here goes (feels like diving into cold water for me):

- set up an online shop with my own jewelry brand:
use knowledge of jekyll and combine with snipcart and other useful resources to set it up (to try and not having to hire expensive web devs, will help in learning about programming more, too. Also static html pages rock).
Create 10 pieces of jewelry as prototypes and then try to streamline the production process, to remove myself as the bottleneck asap. Get the shop ready so to have made at least 10 sales at the end of March (and validate the need!), and at least a hundred at the end of July. Figure out way to automate the production, selling, and especially advertising. Plan to market via Adwords, facebook and possibly Instagram

- get consistent work as a design consultant, to finance my more fastlane-ish endeavors.
This means at least 2k rev a month to cover my expenses and then some. Need to get more clients, so I will call at least 5 prospects per week, as long as I don't have enough recurring ones incoming (which has gotten more and more in 2018, yay!)

- continue working on my secret illustration project with drawing at least 3 new pictures per week.

- continue meditating every day
- be useful/helpful/loving/selfless to at least one person once per day
- and NEVER QUIT. The ONLY person that stands in the way of the realization of my dreams is MYSELF!

Happy New Year everyone!

And @Andy Black , interesting that one of your goals is spending at least 10$ to get more leads? Usually I would have expected something like "get X more leads per day"...any special reason for that?

 

[SteveO]

Retire. Listed the golf course for sale. Will have lots subdivided and up for sale. Searching for a good location for a summer cabin.

 

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[Rabby]

Watch my sales & marketing plan for the year and make sure it's being executed faithfully. Actually read all 52 reports and provide good feedback, coach my sales VP into P or CMO material by year end.

Get 3 new products into the 5+ figure revenue.

Invest in 4 things that are not my product or directly part of my existing business/products, don't cause me to do work or be on a board. Minimum 5,000 cash per "thing."

Resist all nonprofit boards. Infinitely say no. Offer and give help and expertise, but do not commit to meetings.

Make a plan by year end for how I build out and fund a science/biology/aging lab and process in coming years. Move my attention to research.

 

[PizzaOnTheRoof]

1. Reach 180lbs (210 right now)
2. Get my first client in January
3. $3k/month recurring by summer
4. Reach $7k/month by the end of the year
5. Pay off all of my debt ($3,000)
6. Build a $5k emergency fund
7. Get engaged (ring is $800)
8. Possibly launch online course/community idea I’ve been sitting on

 

[Chapas]

Wealth:

- Make 4-5k in monthly revenue by 1st of March from my FB ads agency
- Hit a 20k month by the end of the year!
- Get rid of my debt (around 10k)

Health:

- Become fit again. Need to lose around 10 kilos.
- Drink less wine and beer (already been cutting down on this in 2018)
- Treat myself with massages!

Family:

- Help my wife make at least 1k a month from her drawings by the end of 2019
- Help my mom grow her agriculture event/business-trips business
- Help my dad translate his books into English and create a little living for him through his books

Travel:

- Spend at least 2 months in Asia (never been there!)
- Spend at least 2 weeks in Iceland
- Go to at least 8 new countries I have never been to
- Find a place to settle for a more long-term period

Looks like it will be a busy year! Have a great 2019 everyone!