{"id":448,"date":"2022-12-26T03:48:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raju.guide\/?p=448"},"modified":"2022-12-26T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:00:15","slug":"2023-resolutions-and-how-to-survive-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raju.guide\/index.php\/2022\/12\/26\/2023-resolutions-and-how-to-survive-them\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Resolutions and How to survive them!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we are leaping towards 2023, I&#8217;m getting very excited for new year resolutions and I can think of tons of them. And like everyone I want to achieve \/ excel at all of them. But as you may already know, our commitment to these resolutions doesn&#8217;t last beyond January and we always fail miserably towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are thousands of resolution tracker apps there which can help individuals to keep focused. But still we can&#8217;t reach the finish line to call it a year a successful one. So what we can do it to make it better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I was talking with friends and families, on what are their goals \/ resolutions for 2023, I thought why not make it a fun competition to nudge us to achieve what we want and that&#8217;s when <strong>2023 Doers Challenge<\/strong> is born! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idea is very similar to what we done in the past as part of <em>Uncle and Me<\/em> challenge which I&#8217;ve talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/raju.guide\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/uncle-and-us\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/raju.guide\/index.php\/2020\/07\/04\/uncle-and-us-half-time-report\/\">here<\/a>. Difference is we&#8217;re talking about year long challenge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without further ado, here are the <strong>base rules<\/strong> that we are going to stick to see if we can do what we want to do in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We will give rewards to consistent performers. This will be measured monthly.<ul><li>Prizes will given at the end of the month.<\/li><li>Grand prize will be offered at the end of the year!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>One need to buy in to participate.<ul><li>$50 in two installments.<ul><li>$25 in first week of January<\/li><li>$25 in first week of June<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>Everyone enters their names on <strong>spreadsheet<\/strong> with at least 2-5 activities \/ goals across different categories such as Personal Development, Financial Improvements, Work Skills Growth and for a Better Community around us.<\/em><ul><li><strong>Personal Development<\/strong> &#8211; This can be <em>acquiring new habits, trashing bad habits, new milestones in physical fitness, health or learning new skills such as getting better at new sports, playing new instrument and so on<\/em>.<\/li><li><strong>Financial Improvements<\/strong> &#8211; Possible categories: <em>saving goals, getting rid of debt, learning \/ practicing new ways to improve your wealth.<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Work Skills Growth<\/strong> &#8211; <em>New certifications, learning new programming language, doing more coding at Hacker Rank; Leet code, participating in hackathons and beyond<\/em>.<\/li><li><strong>Better Community<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Giving back for all that we receive! One can be a mentor, actively volunteer to provide services to those who need help!<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Finally <strong>your goals should be smart &#8211; and SMART<\/strong><ul><li>S &#8211; Specific<\/li><li>M &#8211; Measurable<\/li><li>A &#8211; Achievable<\/li><li>R &#8211; Relevant<\/li><li>T &#8211; Time-bound<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>We will be using Google Spreadsheet to track activities across to all the participants.<ul><li>Use secret names to make it more exciting so that all participants will be curious not only about your challenges but person itself!<\/li><li>Also by not using your real name, you will be more ready to share your goals with everyone.<\/li><li>You can also have secret goals, which you can keep track of yourself. It will not be qualified for the rewards though if you can&#8217;t share the progress.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>We will have few judges among us who will make sure your goals are SMART and measured through out the year to decide upon the monthly and annual winner.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to have greater participation so that we can have worthy rewards which will <em><strong>keep everyone focused to be persistent throughout the year<\/strong><\/em>. And that&#8217;s the real objective of this competition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So are you ready for 2023? I am \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we are leaping towards 2023, I&#8217;m getting very excited for new year resolutions and I can think of tons of them. And like everyone I want to achieve \/ excel at all of them. 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