Goals

In the same way that in the last years, I’m going to make a retrospective of my year reviewing my goals and checking if I fulfilled my objectives.

The first step is to review the year in a personal and professional way and if I have met the goals that I set for myself.

Here we go with my 2020’s summary.

2020 was a pandemic year so, all my plans blew up, and I had to change my mind and take a step-by-step approach.

  • I managed to finish a marathon.  
  • I started a new step in my career working at Packlink.
  • I moved to Aracena, Spain, my home town.
  • I’ve been working from home since February.

Now, time to review the goals

  1. Learn English seriously. I have not been able to fulfill this objective, however, I’m attending twice a week to English lessons, so even though my English level has not improved, I’m training several times in the week with a great teacher which allows me to improve my English level. Besides, in Packlink, I have a lot of coworkers who speak in English, so I’m training a lot, and I hope to have major progress this year.
  2. Read books Great job with this goal! More than ten books per year is a great number. I know that reading one book every month is not an impressive number but for me, it’s a great stride.
  3. Contribute to an open-source project. This aim has not been completed at 100 % but I have done huge improvements. I’ve been researching some open source projects in order to learn how to contribute and besides, I’ve released my first library which integrates Cucumber & Micronaut. cucumber-micronaut
  4. Publish at least six posts. This year has been very difficult in mental strength so, I wasn’t able to publish any post to the blog.

With the lesson learned from last year and what I want to be in 2021, these are my goals for the new year.

  1. Learn English seriously. This goal has to be the most important in 2021 again, I must learn as much as possible. I think I have had major progress that I must strengthen and maintain in 2021. Furthermore, I should complete this goal in order to be comfortable in Packlink, so this is a must-have.
  2. Contribute to an open-source project & maintain cucumber-for-micronaut library The most beautiful goal. One of my ambitions in my professional life. I want to contribute to one of the most famous open-source projects like Spring Framework, Jenkins, Elastic, etc… There are a lot of issues labeled as good for beginners so I have to research in the GitHub repositories and contribute to those projects. I would like to solve all issues in my library and release new versions with new features.
  3. Publish at least six posts My blog was the great forgotten last year, and therefore I have to resume this beautiful task. Maybe, I could post my progress with Scala and some recaps of the books that I read.
  4. Take advantage of working from home I enjoy widely working from home and having time for myself, so I should take advantage of this opportunity.

From a personal point of view, I’m working from home 100 %, so I have to improve my communication skills, and my productivity to take advantage of this amazing opportunity.

Technical goals:

  • Improve my productivity with MAC.

  • Learn Scala

  • Learn Functional Programming paradigm.

Let’s do that!