One of the unintended outcomes of my year of living intentionally was revisiting my life plan and rejigging it to incorporate a Codex Vitae and annual (Life) plans. The framework remains the same: three interaction spaces (personal, professional, and public) and seven life domains (spiritual, physical, relational, financial, vocational, mental, causes and charities) across which the health of my life is measured. The idea is to, on an annual basis, review the health of my life using the seven domains to identify ones that need focus in addition to the three interaction spaces. The output of this exercise then is 10-12 goals which form the main objectives for the year.
Having gone through the process for YE 2019 then, a few areas stand out as needing focus:
- Spiritual and Financial domains which are in a terrible state
- Physical (and Health), Vocational and Relational which require improvement
To address key domain issues and interaction space concerns, goals for 2020 are:
- Habit change: Success being measured as completing 100 days free
- Build a daily practice of prayer and Bible study: Measured by completing 100 consecutive days, and then weekdays thereafter
- Lose 14kg of weight by December 2020, key supporting actions being:
- Intermittent fasting: 8pm to 12noon
- <100g of carbs daily
- Run 3x a week
- Fast once a week till 6pm (target Wednesdays)
- Increase daily sleep to >7hrs by December 31st 2020
- Stay off coffee (max 1 cup per day)
- In bed by 10am
- No screens after 9pm (except for MOTD?) daily
- Grow NetWorth by >10% by 31st December 2020
- Improve relationship with Seun
- Complete baseline survey and record current status
- Identify key action to address over 2020
- Speak daily for ~1 hr
- Read 25 books
- Build list of books to read
- Read a chapter each weekday
- Post here three times a week
- Read an M&C topic 3x a week (after work)
- Clear credit card debt by end of March 2020
- Run a half marathon by 31st Aug 2020
- Complete udacity data science course