🎉 Happy New Year!

I want to wish you all a Happy New Year! I hope you all have had great holidays and are ready to seize 2024!

I have spent the last week working through a list to create some feasible goals for 2024 whilst completing my intercalation in London and starting Year 4 Medicine in September!

Goal-setting wasn’t something I ever used to do before, and realistically speaking, this is my first time doing it ‘properly’ if there really is a right method to do it! I have tried to apply the medicine logic and come up with 'SMART’ goals, which are:

• Specific

• Measurable

• Achievable

• Relevant

• Time-bound

This is a good approach to goal-setting personally because it will allow me to compare my results at the end of the year. I haven’t applied any book logic or anything else that currently seems to be the trend.

🎯 So here are my main 3 goals for the year:

• Grow LinkedIn to 5000 followers by the end of the year (I am currently at 1417). Ideally, I want to restart pulling data on impressions, CTR and other analytics, as those are better metrics than followers. I aim to do this by getting back to regular LinkedIn posting (hopefully after exams are done next week 👀)

• Grow the newsletter to 300 readers in 6 months and then re-evaluate. We are currently on 89.

• Finally, I want to publish 26 videos on YouTube by the end of the year (probably the most daring). This equates to a video every other week.

I have chosen these 3 as I feel these align well with my interests in growing my solopreneur reach. I strongly believe that any side hustle I spin-off will organically grow alongside my personal and brand growth.

Have any of you set any goals?

Do hit reply and let me know! I think it would be nice to be accountability partners!